Re: Best remote backup method?

2007-05-17 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, May 17, 2007 11:30:00 +0200 Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also, dump/restore allows you to use snapshots on a live filesystem (I would test it properly on a large FS with heavy activity). But it's worth pointing out that this is fully possibly with any backup tool -

Re: Best remote backup method?

2007-05-17 Thread Peter Schuller
> Also, dump/restore allows you to use snapshots on a live filesystem (I would > test it properly on a large FS with heavy activity). But it's worth pointing out that this is fully possibly with any backup tool - just run mksnap_ffs and backup a mounted snapshot. I do this with rdiff-backup for e

Re: Best remote backup method?

2007-05-16 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 16 May 2007 22:55:04 +0200 Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And, if you _really_ screw things up, like 'rm -rf foo *' > instead of 'rm -rf foo*' from /usr/bin, bunzip2 and restore are right there > in /rescue, while rsync isn't. And getting rsync to work when /usr/bin is > hosed i

Re: Best remote backup method?

2007-05-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:15:05PM +0200, Peter Schuller wrote: > > I'm presently backing up two servers in a remote location to a usb drive > > located elsewhere by using rsync over ssh (all three are FreeBSD boxes.) > > After the recent discussion about dump, I'm wondering if I would gain > > an

Re: Best remote backup method?

2007-05-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:27:35PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:38:13PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > > I'm presently backing up two servers in a remote location to a usb drive > > located elsewhere by using rsync over ssh (all three are FreeBSD boxes.) > > After the

Re: Best remote backup method?

2007-05-16 Thread Jeff Mohler
Is there a free NDMP tool for Freebsd? On 5/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2007, Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:38:13PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: >> I'm presently backing up two servers in a remote location to a usb drive >> located else

Re: Best remote backup method?

2007-05-16 Thread youshi10
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:38:13PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: I'm presently backing up two servers in a remote location to a usb drive located elsewhere by using rsync over ssh (all three are FreeBSD boxes.) After the recent discussion about dump, I'm

Re: Best remote backup method?

2007-05-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:38:13PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > I'm presently backing up two servers in a remote location to a usb drive > located elsewhere by using rsync over ssh (all three are FreeBSD boxes.) > After the recent discussion about dump, I'm wondering if I would gain > anythi

Re: Best remote backup method?

2007-05-16 Thread Peter Schuller
> I'm presently backing up two servers in a remote location to a usb drive > located elsewhere by using rsync over ssh (all three are FreeBSD boxes.) > After the recent discussion about dump, I'm wondering if I would gain > anything by using dump rather than rsync. Has anyone used both? Any > tho

Re: Best remote backup method?

2007-05-16 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:38:13PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > I'm presently backing up two servers in a remote location to a usb drive > located elsewhere by using rsync over ssh (all three are FreeBSD boxes.) > After the recent discussion about dump, I'm wondering if I would gain > anything