In the step by step I thought I saw a a highly laudatory discussion of rsync as a
great backup
choice. Of course, now I can't find it. How much are you backing up? How
often do you do it, etc.
Joel
On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 09:20:34PM -0800, Keith Morse wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Tim Wunder wrote:
>
> > Douglas J Hunley wrote:
> >
> > > All righty.. what is everyone using for their backups? I'm currently using
> > > Arkeia and while it's OK, I just know theres something "better" out there.
> > > So, who's using what? I want unattended, robust, stable operation. I'm using
> > > a Seagate DDs2 drive to do the backups (SCSI).
> > > Thanks
> > >
> >
> > Pardon my ignorance, but is it bad to just use dump to backup data? Or tar?
>
>
> I saw a reference that Linus considered dump to be brain damaged or
> something to that affect and should not be used with 2.4 kernels or
> newer. WRT to tar I still like it and in fact Netbackup, which somebody
> made reference to, uses tar as the "engine" for data transfer from disk to
> backup media. If Netbackup, or more precisely the database it maintains,
> goes south, you still have access to the date on your removable media.
>
>
> Sadly the price of NetBackup is a small but significant portion of the
> nation's GDP.
>
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