[TriLUG] Backing up remote systems

[Jon Carnes]

It depends on where the servers are located.  I use NFS for a lot of backup's 
that are all on internal machines.  To backup external boxes, I use tar/ncftp 
to put the files onto my external FTP server (with a big honken IDE drive for 
incoming files), and then the FTP server is replicated to my internal backup 
server via rsync/ssh.

Be happy to share by setup and scripts with any and all.

Jon

 --- Original Message: Wednesday 27 March 2002 04:38 pm ---
> I have a handful of web servers that I would like to back up w/ from
> a particular box.  I've found references to rdump and to AMANDA.
> AMANDA seems like a pretty complicated way to deal w/ a simple setup,
> so I'm leaning towards rdump ( except that I hate that it seems to be
> based on rsh which I definately don't want to use ).
>
> Anyone have tips on how to backup *nix boxes to a remote *nix box?
> Can I tunnel rdump through SSH?
>
> 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 ??
>
> Thx for any and all advice!!!
>
> KH
>
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