Re: Good backup software for Linux

[Alvin Oga <aoga@mail.Linux-Consulting.com>]

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, [iso-8859-1] Rogério Brito wrote:

> All this backup talk got me thinking: what do you guys recommend for
> backing up workstations with CDs/DVDs for a luser, especially when backing
> up large amounts of data (say, movie and music files) that may not fit into
> one CD/DVD?

stick a 300GB disk into a disk tray and stick it into the 1user pc-server
and use plain ole "tar|find" to copy it onto the backup disk

	#
	# last 7 days of changes ( movies )
	#
	tar cvf /mnt/removable-disk -T - ` find /home/1user -mtime -7
		-type f `

c ya
alvin