On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 09:10:22AM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > On 09/23/11 14:11, Jerry McAllister wrote: > >Why would you interject NFS in the middle of it? ////jerry > There would be no middle. I would run rsyncd or nfsd, but not both.
Ah, I get it. In that case, I think rsync is probably more useful than NFS because it can check and only copy modified files. Alternatively, if you are doing backups to recover from system failures - such as a disk crash, you would probably prefer dump(8)/restore(8) They can write to a file on the other machine, can do "change dumps" and they preserve all the needed UNIX attributes. I actually do a dump piped to a restore on another disk as a convenient backup to handle my all too frequent cases of fumble fingers and sleep deprived bad thinking where I need to quickly get back a file I mangled, deleted or need to start over on. Restore can easily pull single files or directory trees from a dump file as well. But having it already pre-restored makes it easier -- and only doubles my disk use - disk is cheap isn't it. ////jerry > > Jason _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
