Linux Backup Administration

Thom Paine painethom at gmail.com
Sat Jul 2 00:33:25 UTC 2005


> I'm new to *nix administration. I've used *nix installations
> for years in various incarnations (Xenix, Solaris, HPUX et al.)
> but not on the admin side. Backup is still something of a
> mystery to me. It seems that there are two schools of thought
> 
> cpio
> tar
> 
>

Try rsync. Check out this great article from Mike Rubel.

http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/index.html

It will give you a new perspective on backups.

-- 
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