[K12OSN] low tech solution needed for backing up home directories

[Petre Scheie]

A really, really low-tech method would be to have root just tar /home and then use, say, 
scp to copy it to another machine.  Then you just put it in cron to run once a week or 
once a night, or whatever.

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 12:46, Carl Keil wrote:
> 
>>Does anyone have a nifty solution for backing up home dirs? 
> 
> 
> Must be time to plug backuppc again...
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
> Run it on some other linux machine and it will back up
> anything you want over the network and give you a web
> interface for restores.
>