On Wednesday 09 June 2004 12:31 pm, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > At 07:02 6/9/2004, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > >1. Full backup on day 1 to the backup server. > > > >2. Write the full backup to media (either CD-R or CD-RW or DVD-RW, haven't > >really decided yet), and leave the data in the drives in the backup server > > > >3. Differential backup on day 2 to day 7 > > > >4. Remove lask week backup from Harddrive, then Goto 1. > > I believe rsnapshot will do everything you want. You might want to set up a > mondo image of the box newly-installed, so you can restore from "bare > metal" with mondo. Then you backup everything you need and restore from the > rsnapshot backup. That would keep the size of your backups down even > further. OK, after Ed's and your explanation I realized that I guess I overlooked some of the rsnapshot features :). Thanks for the enlightenment. RDB -- Reuben D. Budiardja Department of Physics and Astronomy The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN --------------------------------------------------------- "To be a nemesis, you have to actively try to destroy something, don't you? Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect." - Linus Torvalds - -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list