OT - backup supplements

[ryanx at indy.rr.com]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 09:14:08PM -0500, Bill Vermillion said:

> > Hardware failure may not be the primary reason that backups come in
> > handy but it does happen. If you're going to keep extra copies on disk
> > instead of DVD, CD, or tape it would be better to keep them on a 
> > separate drive.   
> 
> The lastest FreeBSD has snapshots and those could work well.
> I've not gone that route yet so maybe Walter can tell us
> if he's running FP on the 5.x series.
> 
> With snapshots you can even automate them, and then take the
> snapshot and dump it, back it up, move it to another machine.

Does that require journaling? Not that you would catch me without it,
just wondering. How about a snapshot and rsync in crontab. Wouldn't
that be ideal?

-- 
Ryan
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