optimesing NFS Server for e.g. remote Backup

[Götz Reinicke]

Tony Molloy schrieb:
> On Thursday 16 February 2006 07:45, Götz Reinicke wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have some RHEL4 servers and want to set up a central backup system
>> with a "big" harddisk. I found a very nice shell-script, doing
>> incremental backups using tar.
>>
> 
>> Any ideas what coul be wrong? The Backups are about 10 GB +- up to 100
>> GB in the future.
> 
> With that amount of data to backup don't use tar, use rsync instead. Rsync 
> is much faster as it only copies the parts of files which have changed. 
> An excellent backup system using rsync to try is BackupPC                
> <  backuppc.sourceforge.net >. It does full and incremental backups using 
> rsync.
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This sounds fine! I'll give it a try!

Thank you Tony!

> 
> Tony
> 

Regards
Götz
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