Advice on external backup of a Linux server.

[Arthur Pemberton]

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 06:16, Bill Gradwohl wrote:
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>>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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>Backuppc (http://backuppc.sourceforge.net) does compress, link and
>otherwise molest the files to to the tune of getting at least 5X
>more data on your backup drive (my real experience with a week's
>history of 25 machines online at once).  However, it still presents
>a simple browsable point/click interface to restore files (or just
>download through the browser) and it has a concept of 'owners' for
>the different machines to control access through the web interface.
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That's definetly worth a bookmark. Thank you.