On Fri, Dec 23, 2005 at 01:18:07PM -0700, Whyzzi wrote: > Interesting idea, and have to admit I didn't think of it. There is a > second HD ide hard drive slaved in the mail server, as well. I could > use the likes of DD or dump/restore onto the second drive (slave). > Last time I did that (dump/restore), I screwed up though, which is why > a second backup method is preferable. I was playing CCD with the likes > of that, for the separate /home partition. But for some reason it > didn't quite feel right (likely a setup problem), so I scratched the > CCD idea.
I have made good experience using 'rdiff-backup' to store data on a second hard-disk or on a remote machine. It does incremental backups and even keeps track of all changes. I have to admit that I have not used it on OpenBSD, so YMMV. http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ Bernd [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature which had a name of signature.asc]
