Is there a free NDMP tool for Freebsd? On 5/16/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:38:13PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: >> I'm presently backing up two servers in a remote location to a usb drive >> located elsewhere by using rsync over ssh (all three are FreeBSD boxes.) >> After the recent discussion about dump, I'm wondering if I would gain >> anything by using dump rather than rsync. Has anyone used both? Any >> thoughts as to which is "better" and why? >> >> The rsync command I use is: >> rsync -avz ${LOCALDIR} -e "ssh -i ${KEY}" ${REMOTEHOST}:${REMOTEDIR} > > With dumps it is easier to keep different ones around. If you rsync a > directory, all previous changes are lost. If you rsync to a different > directory every time to keep different versions, you might as well use > tar, because rsync won't save a lot of space/time in that case. And dump > will backup all ufs2 features such as flags and acls. I'm not sure if > rsync can manage that. It's also easy to compress dumps, which can save > a lot of space. Tar is expensive time-wise anyhow after a while if you use compression. Also, rsync does diffs on files, which can become expensive in terms of time. -Garrett _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to " [EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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