[H-GEN] Admin bounce for "Dan Roe" <grem at shells.homeunix.net>

[elliotj]

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In the last few days there have been messages posted about backing up 
and UPS.  Quite by chance I picked up the December 2000 issue of Linux 
Journal and there articles titled "A Linux-Based Automatic Backup 
System" and "Monitoring your UPS with apcupsd"

John Elliot <elliotj at bigpond.com>

----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Brockway <robert at timetraveller.org>
Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 10:49 am
Subject: Re: [H-GEN] Admin bounce for "Dan Roe" 
<grem at shells.homeunix.net>

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> On 17 Sep 2002, Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
> 
> > I use a similar method using nfs, samba and a few removable 
> drives...
> Not bad.  I do have a couple of suggestions :)
> 
> I've always found nfs performance to not be up to the demands 
> placed on it
> with respect to backups.  Also if you start allowing root access 
> via nfs
> it becomes quite insecure.  I prefer using scp.  I have a cronjob 
> run on
> each Linux box doing a tar which is then scp'ed to the backup server.
> 
> Although the cron job runs as root it logs into the backup server 
> (whichdoes some other jobs also) as a non-priviliged user I setup 
> for the
> purpose.
> 
> All the relevant directories on the backup server are writable by the
> backup user.
> 
> > 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
> 
> :)
> 
> Cheers,
> 	-Rob
> 
> -- Robert Brockway B.Sc. email: robert at timetraveller.org  ICQ: 
> 104781119   Linux counter project ID #16440 (http://counter.li.org)
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