On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Chris Mason so wrote:
} I could cron a tar/gzip scp the file to another server, but what files
} should I tar. Obviously the whole /home tree, what else? I have compiled
} some software, such as php4, so I would be pretty stuck even if I had a new
} clean box to restore to.
*snip*
This is not that hard to do. rsync is pretty simple. You can
install it and set it to backup an entire server in less than an
hour - a couple of minutes after you get the hang of it.
Just my thoughts...