Brad Cramer wrote: > I have a small network at home (4 linux machine 2 win98 machines) and I > would like to know what would be the best way to back these up to one server > that has a scsi dat drive. I have tries afbackup but am having a heck of a > time getting it configured. Is there a simpler way of doing this. I am > mainly worried about the linux machine, not the win98 machines as they are > my kids and the info on them isn't important. Is there a way I could use tar > to do weekly full and daily incremental backups and copy these to an nfs > mount on the server with the dat drive. I would like them to to be named > hostname.date.full/incr.tar.gz so I can tell what goes where and I am not > worried about backing up the stuff I can restore from a fresh install just > the stuff I can't. any advice or pointers would be appreciated or if someone > could simplify afbackup for me that would help. BTW 3 of the linux machines > are running Debian one is running RedHat. > Thanks > Brad
Once you get the basic backup system working using the advice of the other responses to this question, you might want to consider implementing rsync for the backups. This way you only update the new stuff once you get the basic backups made. This could significantly shorten the backup time(s) for each machine. I have a message from a friend on another computer describing how to do this in a secure manner using ssh. He uses this to make nightly backups of his commercial mailing-list files... Holler via E-Mail if you are interested and I will try to dig it out. Cheers, -Don Spoon-
