Anybody using "dump"/"restore" to a remote system?

[nathan r. hruby]

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Rick Thomas wrote:

>  From the total lack of response to this question, can I assume that 
> all you folks out there in YDL-land never do backups?  What do you 
> do when you loose a disk? Or do you just run everything RAID-5?
> 
> 
> Seriously: How do you back up your YDL machines?
> 
 
The archives have a few discussions about backups, I think most folks are
just using tar, as it's a bit more portable across platforms and works
well.  There are several upper level wrappers, like amanda and flexbackup
which also work well for automating the drudgery.  YDL even partners with
the fine folks at BRU, IIRC.  We use some simple custom scripts than can
be found here (note that I didn't write these):
ftp://linuxserv.uga.edu/linux/unsupported/backup/

For the most part, backing-up YDL is like backing up any other unix-alike.

-n
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