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In article <54gqmp$r64@usenet2y.prodigy.net>,
	davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen) writes:
> In article <Pine.OSF.3.95.961022024048.12764A-100000@student.uq.edu.au>,
> Doug Simon <s325296@student.uq.edu.au> wrote:

>| I am installing a backup system to handle the backup of a four machine
>| network. To enable backup machine to have access to the remote
>| filesystems, I am running the whole thing over NFS. To ensure that the

> As my youngest daughter once said, "yuckie-poo!"

Very apt <g>.


> I highly suggest setting up a non-priviledged account on the backup
> master, which allows an rsh or something similar, and letting the

We use ssh and cpio to back up to a hard drive that's dedicated
to the task.  Offsite backups are then made to a tape drive on the 
backup machine.  Works like a champ.  Very fast.


> - compress before sending
> - encrypt before sending

Ssh does the encrypt part, we use gzip to compress.


> The real question isn't how to do backup with NFS, but how to do
> backup at all. There are lots of options.

As with most things Unix <g>.

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 Bob Hauck                                        bobh@wasatch.com
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