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Subject: [ale] Backups (What are you using?)
From: scmlist at cycoresys.com (Sean C. McCord)
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:32:20 -0500
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On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:37:57PM -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 2009/1/26 Ken Ratliff <forsaken at targaryen.us>:
> > depends on what's in your environment. Since 99% of all of our boxes are one
> > unix variant or another, rsync suits our needs perfectly.
> 
> rsync to tape???

Yech... who wants tape???  Awful medium, that:  slow, unreliable,
serial, expensive, etc.

Backup server w/ rsync differential snapshots is the idea.

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