NAS remote backup.

Smoot Carl-Mitchell smoot at tic.com
Thu Oct 29 02:44:34 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 21:18 -0500, J Bickhard wrote:
> I'll admit it: I'm cheap. Instead of just buying a new USB 2.0 card,
> I'm going to build an NAS to create a remote backup through my
> network. I just want to do a once-in-a-while full-image backup of one
> of my computers. Where should I start?

Take a look at pdumpfs or glastree.  Do a Google search for either.  You
can use rsync to do a full filesystem dump to the NAS and then set up
pdumpfs or glastree to build storage efficient daily snapshots.
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