Re: Incremental backups?

["Tom Metro-12" <user=71@nabble.blu.org>]

 Scott R. Ehrlich wrote: 
> I have a low-power Linux box that has a few samba shares mounted, and 
> limited hard disk space.   This box is connected to a tape library via 
> SCSI card. 
> 
> I want to find the best way to create a full, then incremental backup of 
> the samba mounts... 
> How about rsync? 

rsync is designed to work with two random-access file systems, so no, it 
wouldn't be suited for direct to tape backup. You could rsync to a local 
copy, and then spool that to tape, but you've pointed out that you have 
limited disk space and want something that goes direct to tape. In 
addition, you lose most of the performance benefits of rsync if you try 
and use it with a network mounted file system, rather than running the 
rsync protocol over the network. 


> I'm looking at tar as an option... 

Seems like a reasonable choice, seeing as you are spooling to tape. 

  -Tom 

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