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From: "Gremlin" <grem at shells.homeunix.net>
To: <general at lists.humbug.org.au>
Subject: RE: [H-GEN] Backups [was U.P.S]
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 10:07:05 +1000
Message-ID: <002901c25dde$27e6b870$0100a8c0 at qld.optushome.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0209170931340.11997-100000 at avon.timetraveller.org>

> I got this idea from our very own David Makepeace and have been most happy
> with the result.  I think this is a great solution for a home user or a
> small business.  My full system backups for 3 boxes take up about 8-9Gb,
> so I can get quite a few full backups on my nice 80Gb drive.  If I used
> incrementals I could extend this even further.  I use only a single
> firewire HD but multiple could be used for added protection.

I use a similar method using nfs, samba and a few removable drives...
I wrote a perl script to use smbtar to create backups of my win machines
While all my linux boxes use an nfs share back on the backup box
A simple cron job to start it at 10 every night...

6 or 7 hours later (about the time i get to work) the backup is finnished
Sounds horrible and probably is...
But it saves me having to use windows programs or copy the files manually
All i do now is swap drives and -try- get someone to take the backup home

Dan Roe

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