On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:15:05PM +0200, Peter Schuller 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} > > Personally I never find dump/restore practical since I seldom want to > backup entire filesystems for performance/diskspace reasons.
That is one reason I divide things up in to more partitions and thus more specific filesystems. I can isolate the things I want to back up regularly from those that do not need it. ////jerry > ..... > > automatic rotation schemes with hourly/daily/etc you have to script that > on top. > > > -- > / Peter Schuller > > PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>' > Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.scode.org > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"