Thanks Russ, I will definitely look into this. The Solaris sysadmins here have told me to take a look at rsync for managing some other Linux machines under my charge. They won't touch Linux or help me much, being sort of snobs and not considering Linux a true Unix operating system. Their loss my gain, I'm actually a NT guy quickly converting to Linux :-).
> -----Original Message----- > From: R P Herrold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:02 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Total Backup of a system (RH6.1) > > > On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Richard Wilson wrote: > > > Thank you for such a detailed explanation. > > Quite a few new concepts for me, it was not boring rather a little > > overwhelming but interesting stuff. > > <snip> > > Besides the machine is at a co-location two hours away from > > the office :-( > > Ummm -- The solution proposed is rather not suited to your > situation. Assuming you have root access, and fast > intervening bandwidth, you might prefer: > > rsync -av -e ssh --exclude /proc remote.machine.com:/. \ > /path/in/local/filesystem/with/lots/of/space/. > > which basically 'photocopies' the remote machine onto your > local filesystem, so you may inventory and experiment as you > wish. You man also then use a variant of the above command to > build an identical local physical replica of the remote host. > > -- Russ Herrold > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
