Re: [tlug] Remote Backups and Command Line Stuff

[Stuart Luppescu <s-luppescu@example.com>]

On 金, 2006-07-07 at 18:20 +0200, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> > If you're going to do a backup, I would think you'd want the
> original
> > files, rather than a tar file on the remote machine.
> 
> Why?
> 
> As long as you can restore the backup if needed, why not do it so that
> it uses as little space as possible? I do! I generate roughly a GB
> of .tar.bz2 files every day, so I'm pretty pleased that they're not
> uncompressed! 

I can see your point, but I usually use this kind of thing to mirror a
directory on a backup machine so if the main machine goes kablooey I can
easily switch over to the backup machine. I also use it to migrate data
on old drives to new machines. Backup files I write to archive media
such as DVD-R (but I use cpio for that).

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