backup stratagems

[Byron Sonne]

> What do you use ?

I have a DDS-4 drive hanging off my linux box that I use to backup 
everything in my house, OpenBSD or the wife's windows & mac boxen.

How do I do it? Well, I don't do it as regularly as I should as I 
trigger it manually by doing this on the remote host:

tar -cevf - / | ssh sheridan buffer -u 100 -B -t -p 75 -o /dev/nst0

I see no reason why something like this couldn't be coupled with rsync 
to save bandwidth and then cron'd for ease of running. BTW, the buffer 
programs helps since remote tape backups can bitch if they don't get fed 
properly. Godbless the person who wrote that on the website I got it 
from (can't remember).

Of course it would be a little different on the local host, but if 
you're not doing enterprise backups tar works surprisingly well for home 
needs.

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