On Tuesday 16 January 2007 10:35, Maciej Sołtysiak wrote: > Hi, > > My vpopmail/domains dir is on a 270GB XFS (on linux) partition. The domains > dir weighs in > at around 40GB. The partition is on a RAID 5 scsi setup. > > I'd like to do backups of the whole domains directory. I have a huge NAS > that > I connect to using NFS (v3). A simple cp -Rp copy took 4 hours to complete. > > What backup software would you recommend that's better than cp ? tar, cpio > and others would create huge files that would be impossible to process > later on. > I would also like an incremental backup. Does anyone have an idea? > > -- > Maciej Soltysiak
http://www.rsnapshot.org/ normally uses ssh, but can be used 'locally', don't know how that goes with NFS. It's very efficient once the first snapshot has been built. -- ----------------- Bob Hutchinson Midwales dot com -----------------
