Chris Rowson wrote: > Hello, > > I've got a question about server backups. > > Scenario: You want to perform a daily backup of a web server content > at /var/www/ to a mounted device at /media/netbackup. > > To do this you run a daily job as follows: > > tar cpf /media/netbackup/fullbackup-`date '+%d-%B-%Y'`.tar /var/www > > Your /var/www/ is 10GB in size. > > The question is, do you require at least 10GB of free space on the web > server's hard disk drive in order to build the tar archive before > sending it off to the mounted device, or is the archive built on the > mounted device instead?
Running the job as you specified it above, the tar will be created directly on the mounted device. Steve -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
