Re: Plan 9 style backup utility for FreeBSD?

2004-01-07 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:08:24PM +0100, Martin Brecher wrote: > Scott Mitchell wrote: > [...] > >> > >>Is there some standard tool for doing this on FreeBSD? You can't just > >>do a direct copy cause this results in major disk space wastage so I'm > >>imagining you need to use hard links or some

Re: Plan 9 style backup utility for FreeBSD?

2004-01-07 Thread Martin Brecher
Scott Mitchell wrote: [...] Is there some standard tool for doing this on FreeBSD? You can't just do a direct copy cause this results in major disk space wastage so I'm imagining you need to use hard links or something to keep the size down. Check out rsync and the "--link-dest=DIR" option. Thi

Re: Plan 9 style backup utility for FreeBSD?

2004-01-03 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 09:26:59AM -0800, Eric Rescorla wrote: > I'm finally getting to the point where my disk capacity massively > outruns my tape capacity, so I'm thinking of converting to removable > disk-only backup. I could just use Amanda to backup to disk, but I'm > intrigued by Plan 9's ar

Re: Plan 9 style backup utility for FreeBSD?

2004-01-02 Thread paul beard
On Jan 2, 2004, at 9:26 AM, Eric Rescorla wrote: I'm finally getting to the point where my disk capacity massively outruns my tape capacity, so I'm thinking of converting to removable disk-only backup. I could just use Amanda to backup to disk, but I'm intrigued by Plan 9's archival filesystem whe