Advice on external backup of a Linux server.

[Bill Gradwohl]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:

> But I'd like to know what technologies (for lack of a better word) do 
> you utilize to do the snapshoting?

I use rsync as the main engine to do the heavy lifting. I use a cron job 
to run the backup as often as I want. There are other snapshot backup 
utilities, scripts, procedures, etc, out on the web. Google for snapshot.

The key is to use a disk drive as the destination, and to not use 
anything that compresses or in any way molests the files. You want to be 
able to have an "end user" type simple point, click and copy a backup 
file to whereever it needs to go without uncompressing or in any other 
way manipulate the "backup" before its useable.

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