From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from wlym.com (wlym.com [208.79.16.96]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5629E10A67 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:50:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ccs.covici.com (pool-71-171-110-105.clppva.fios.verizon.net [71.171.110.105]) (authenticated bits=128) by wlym.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m9THpvOs023355 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:51:58 -0400 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m9THprCR014634 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:51:56 -0400 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.2/8.13.7/Submit) id m9THprJe014633; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:51:53 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18696.41657.928527.581046@ccs.covici.com> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:51:53 -0400 From: John covici To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Backup Questions In-Reply-To: <20081029173921.GA3229@pillow.holmesgrown.com> References: <20081029173921.GA3229@pillow.holmesgrown.com> X-Mailer: VM ?bug? under Emacs 23.0.60.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: covici@ccs.covici.com, "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:50:51 -0000 I have had great success with rdiff-backup -- it does not compress except for the differences, but the nice thing is that if you want to restore the current version, you can just copy, otherwise restore of past versions is quite fast. Disk space is cheap, so this s a great solution for me. on Wednesday 10/29/2008 Steve Holmes(steve@holmesgrown.com) wrote > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > This assumes you backup your stuff at all:). What do you folks out > there use for backing up your systems under linux? I've been using tar > lately but I notice that for very large archives, tar is EXTREMELY > slow! It's taking me over an hour to extract a single file from a 20GB > archive. There's got to be a faster and better way to do this. I > didn't think it took terribly long to back the stuff up but extraction > takes forever. Is cpio better for this perhaps? I thought about zip > but I understood there were problems using zip/unzip for backups; > besides, I think there's a 4GB limit on zips; I could be wrong there. > I've heard about amanda but that might be overkill for my residential > setup with 3 computers. > > Any ideas welcom. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFJCJ/JWSjv55S0LfERA2gCAJ0a8pWiS5HwkYmK92DBTyHFx+WxJwCfTStw > QpJBIfhiNb/X4oAkOyWtBXs= > =a6e3 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com