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

Bill Fink yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Tue Jul 22 17:52:01 2003


On Sun Jul 20 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?

I just use rsync to either another local disk (FireWire), or rsync
across the network to a backup disk.  After the first time, this
should be much faster than dump/restore.

						-Bill