Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:06:03PM -0400, David Banning wrote: I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which directories I would like to backup, how often and have it tar or zip the files into a directory

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-07 Thread David Banning
For backing up purposes, I use a number of tools. Thanks Frank for your input. I have chosen for now use Chuck's suggestion, that being cvsup. The only thing I would like to do is omit certain files that I don't want backed up - large unimportant files - some cache and log files. I'll look at

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-07 Thread Mike Fahey
You can do all of this with amanda and simply run your backup from cron. amanda.org David Banning wrote: For backing up purposes, I use a number of tools. Thanks Frank for your input. I have chosen for now use Chuck's suggestion, that being cvsup. The only thing I would like to do is omit

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-07 Thread Frank Shute
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:25:12AM -0400, David Banning wrote: For backing up purposes, I use a number of tools. Thanks Frank for your input. I have chosen for now use Chuck's suggestion, that being cvsup. The only thing I would like to do is omit certain files that I don't want backed up

suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-06 Thread David Banning
I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which directories I would like to backup, how often and have it tar or zip the files into a directory - if it has off-site ftp, fine, but I can do that part myself via

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-06 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Banning wrote: I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which directories I would like to backup, how often and have it tar or zip the files into a

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-06 Thread Eric Zimmerman
David Banning wrote: I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which directories I would like to backup, how often and have it tar or zip the files into a directory - if it has off-site ftp, fine, but I can do

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-06 Thread Outback Dingo
bacula is good server and client On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:52 PM, Eric Zimmerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Banning wrote: I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which directories I would like to

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:06:03PM -0400, David Banning wrote: I wonder if anyone can recommend a good backup utility for FreeBSD. If it's in the ports, great. I would like to just specify which directories I would like to backup, how often and have it tar or zip the files into a directory

Re: suggestion on a backup utility

2008-05-06 Thread Robert Huff
Jerry McAllister writes: How about using dump(8)/restore(8). It will handle all file situations correctly. Its main knock is that it can only dump by file systems and not sub-directories, though you can restore by subdirectory or individual file. While it will only dump