On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Jason Sievert wrote: > Hey guys, I need some advice on doing a backup for our lab server. I > have about 140GB of data that I would like to backup to a SNAP NAS that > we have laying around. I am running Gentoo on the server if that makes > a difference. Well I was thinking about doing a simple tar but I was > wondering if their was anything else out their that might make my life > easier. My boss is hoping for something that can do basic incrementals. > Any thought or experiences? BackupPC rules. http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ It's packaged in Debian; not sure about Gentoo, but I'd imagine it's there. The advantages of BackupPC really come when backing up multiple machines (any identical files will automatically be hardlinked), but it should work just fine for what you want to do, too. It supports incremental and such out of the box. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list