Advice on external backup of a Linux server.

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 00:11 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> But I'd like to know what technologies (for lack of a better word) do 
> you utilize to do the snapshoting? If you prefer, a few suggested google 
> queries would  help.
> 

I prefer backing up to a RAID-5 array so the backup "disk" has a larger
capacity and greater resistance to hardware failures. To actually do the
snapshots, rsnapshot [1] will do you righteously and easily, and I've
also recently had backuppc [2] recommended to me (but not used it yet).

[1] http://www.rsnapshot.org

[2] http://backuppc.sourceforge.net

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Rodolfo J. Paiz <rpaiz at simpaticus.com>