[TriLUG] Backing up remote systems

[Vestal, Roy L.]

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy P [mailto:jeremyp at pobox.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 4:50 PM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Backing up remote systems


On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Kevin Hunter wrote:

> I'm a big fan of keeping it simple.  I'm even thinking of using a
> cron job to create tar.gz files of what I need to back up and scp'ing
> them down to the box w/ the tape drive?  Does this sound silly ??

No, I know of many people who do this.  Remember that tar itself is the
original backup program -- "tar" stands for "Tape ARchive".  It's well
suited to simple jobs.


My only problem with "tar" is that it doesn't store the dates and
ownerships. I use dump and restore keep the dates and ownerships