Advice on external backup of a Linux server.

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 10 Feb 2005, at 13:16, Bill Gradwohl wrote:

> 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.

Another option is using LVM2 snaphots, although it requires setting LVM 
up, which not everyone uses.