On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 09:07, Michael L Torrie wrote:
> We use removable IDE disks (one per day) and rsync onto them.  Given
> that we have 7 disks, we can get one full backup per day.  For most
> purposes, that's enough.

I have my system set up to back up /var, /etc, and /home nightly to
another hard drive in the server, using rsync.  It would be great to
have several different backups (one every day or every other day) on the
same backup drive, but that would take up a lot of space.  What would be
a good way of compressing the data for storage?

# (for two backups)
rm /mnt/bak/home.0.gz
cp /mnt/bak/home.gz /mnt/bak/home.0.gz
gzip -cr /home | rsync - /mnt/bak/home.gz

Would this work okay?

Casey

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