I have been looking at the simplest way to back up a couple of small machines. For example this machine has primary DNS server and backup mail relay for my domain. There are a few other things but that's really the important part. Complete off site backups and such would be basically a waist. In this case because the primary desire is to get running quickly again without having to do a fresh install, configuration etc.
What I was looking at was simply to NFS mount a large server and use something like cpio to transfer the whole thing over there. If each file could be gzipped in the process of transfering them it would be helpfull. Does this sound like a reasonable approach and is there a more simple means of doing this. I tend to find that the biggest problems on a system like this one is that someone trashes up a particular file, deletes it or I have a disk crash. ( The bearings in the drive don't sound really healthy at this moment. ) Getting an archive of this system would be a big plus as far as I can see. Any help or suggestions would be extremely helpfull because this is kind of a new area for me to deal with on Linux systems. Thanks All. Chris Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .