[TriLUG] Backups

[Jon Carnes]

I have found that nothing really beats a good tar script in a crontab entry...
  2 4 * * 1   mv ~backup/mail.tar.gz ~backup/mail.tar.gz.1; tar -czf 
~backup/mail.tar.gz ~jonc/mail

Plus I leave a weeks email on my work servers

Jon

 --- Original Message: Tuesday 30 April 2002 10:14 pm ---
> OK, I've just munged my saved mail folder.  (I think I mentioned to some of
> you that this was a statistical likelyhood.  However, I was thinking of
> likely over the next two years, not over the next week.)
>
> I do have a tar file backup, but I only took it a month ago.  (OK OK, once
> a month isn't real handy when you screw up at the end of the month.)
>
> So I was wondering, are there any good backup solutions out there?  Does
> everyone roll their own, or are there really good packages out there that
> people are using?
>
> Thanks for the help.
>
> CJK
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