From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:36:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811161036.39322.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1226826281.21629.19.camel@rattus.localdomain>
On Sonntag 16 November 2008, William Kenworthy wrote:
> dirvish is in portage.
>
> tar/rsync/cp are not really backups but manual copies. If you want true
> backup you need scripts to handle the extra functionality for things
> like versioning, archive management and the all important restore.
archives are managed by my tapelib, thank you very much. Restore is as easy as
backup with tar.
And if you start depending on something complex, you will be screwed at some
point. Every system and every livecd has tar. amanda? mondo? devilish? not.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-16 9:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-15 19:45 [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time Mick
2008-11-15 20:13 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-11-15 20:23 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-15 20:29 ` Jerry McBride
2008-11-15 20:38 ` Dale
2008-11-16 0:08 ` Mick
2008-11-16 0:42 ` Dale
2008-11-16 2:58 ` Jerry McBride
2008-11-16 9:54 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-16 11:51 ` Mick
2008-11-16 13:08 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-16 17:12 ` Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
2008-11-16 5:16 ` jaeyoung lee
2008-11-16 9:04 ` William Kenworthy
2008-11-16 9:36 ` Volker Armin Hemmann [this message]
2008-11-16 9:58 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-16 10:31 ` William Kenworthy
2008-11-16 10:39 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-16 12:36 ` William Kenworthy
2008-11-16 13:15 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-17 16:07 ` Joerg Schilling
2008-11-30 22:56 ` Mick
2008-11-30 23:04 ` Joerg Schilling
2008-11-16 10:35 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-11-19 16:59 ` Mark Somerville
2008-11-19 17:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2008-11-20 7:15 ` Dirk Heinrichs
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