[H-GEN] Linux file server

[Josh Marshall]

On Fri, 2 Jul 2004 12:14, Harry Phillips wrote:
> I have been considering this myself, so what would you use to image one
> drive to another each night? dd?

Consider using LVM and it's snapshot feature, then do a tar or rsync off that.

I personally use backuppc [1] for backups across the network, it can use tar 
and rsync. For our main fileserver we have a pre- and post- backup command 
that takes and removes a snapshot specifically for backups. It's really 
annoying having a backup that isn't frozen in time, or has files missing or 
corrupt because they changed mid-backup.

Regards,
Josh.

[1] http://backuppc.sourceforge.net