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Re: [PLUG] Disk-to-disk backup
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Uh... Why not use tar? Or maybe one of its dirivitives such as star? PAX?
I can see why you want to do as you are trying to do. I have a firewire
mounted 80GB disk that I use for backup and I am doing the same thing as
well. I have played around with several different things but really like
the simplicity of tar. SInce I am only backing up specific data starting
at a folder "root" point such as /home it works out great. Also, I max out
the compression as well so I get maximum disk usage of the backup device.
Something I am working on now is asking tar to chunk the output files into
650MB sizes (I have a load of 650MB CDRWs) so I can then offload those
backups to CDRW periodically.
Anyway... why not just stick with something simple like tar. I especially
love how I can 'nice' the cronjob down to almost nothing and it still runs
fine -- even though it then takes for ever to complete.
Kam.
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>> Probably there's a better tool for the job that I don't know about.
>> Does anyone have any suggestions for some other tool, or some way to
>> fix one of the problems I mentioned above?
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> Unison from http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/.
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Kam Salisbury
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