Re: [tlug] Remote Backups and Command Line Stuff

[Godwin Stewart <godwin.stewart@example.com>]

On Fri, 07 Jul 2006 11:43:45 -0500, Stuart Luppescu
<s-luppescu@example.com> wrote:

> 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 see. For your use, just copying over the files does make most sense.
Over here I can allow myself a couple of hours downtime while I either
fix the box or throw up a new one and restore all my backups to it. In
these circumstances, working with compressed archives makes most sense.

-- 
G. Stewart - godwin.stewart@example.com

Computers do what you tell them to do, not necessarily what you want
them to do.

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