I am hoping that this is on-topic for the questions list. If not, I
apologize.
I have a couple of FreeBSD systems, and I must confess that I haven't
set systematic back-ups of them.
I've taken a quick look at both the Bacula and Amanda documentation,
but for reasons below I'll list why
2008/4/27 Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I am hoping that this is on-topic for the questions list. If not, I
apologize.
I have a couple of FreeBSD systems, and I must confess that I haven't set
systematic back-ups of them.
I've taken a quick look at both the Bacula and Amanda
On Apr 26, 2008, at 3:38 PM, David N wrote:
We used to use RSnapshot http://www.rsnapshot.org/ to backup to an
external disk, its a great tool that also does incremental via hard
links which is a plus.
Just after I posted, I started thinking about rsync. I hadn't known
about rsync's hard
You haven't mentioned how large a USB drive you have available
to use for this scheme, but it sounds to me like your situation
can be summed up as follows:
- you have two machines to back up, one is remote, but both have
consistent network accessibility
- you have a (removable) drive upon
I've taken a quick look at both the Bacula and Amanda documentation, but for
reasons below I'll list why I don't think that they are idea for my rather
simple situation.
rsync is what you need.
while r means remote you may use rsync between local filesystems too.
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
On Apr 26, 2008, at 3:38 PM, David N wrote:
We used to use RSnapshot http://www.rsnapshot.org/ to backup to an
external disk, its a great tool that also does incremental via hard
links which is a plus.
Just after I posted, I started thinking
On Saturday 26 April 2008 16:26:53 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
I am hoping that this is on-topic for the questions list. If not, I
apologize.
I have a couple of FreeBSD systems, and I must confess that I haven't
set systematic back-ups of them.
I've taken a quick look at both the Bacula and
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:26:53 -0500
Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm sure that I could roll my own with dump or such, but I'm sure
that I would leave important things out
i don't know about that, jeffrey.
i found dump to be very straightforward and i think it's great you can
ssh
