Re: copy partition from a remote server

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

On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Frederic Guillet wrote:

> i want to run a daily back-up of an entire HD (160GO) remotely. 
> 
> Do you know any tool that can perform this on an incremental basis? 

script in cron for 160GB machine
  160GB# mount remote_Backup:/opt/Backup-of-160GB /mnt/remote_backup
  160GB# tar cf /mnt/remote_backup/todays-date.tgz \
	` find / -mtime -2 \( -type f -o -type l \) -print` 
  160GB# umount /mnt/remote_backup
done

- there are hundreds of reasons why a "simple incremental
  backup" is not good enough, especially if you care about
  the potential loss of any data, that you find out was lost
  few months ago during a faulty backup that was not self checking
  and self-correcting

- more important your adata is, the more ways you will have to
  recover your lost data and verify that not a single bit was lost

c ya
alvin