Re: [cobalt-users] Backing up from one box to another

[elmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Richard Young wrote:

} We want to know how you can back up certain files (user files) from one
} cobalt box in one location to another cobalt box at a different location on
} a daily basis.  We hope to make the boxes as redundant servers in 2
} locations thus doing tape back ups is not an option.

rsync was designed for this purpose. It's free, it's stable, it will
run happily through as SSH tunnel so it's also very secure and it's
install it, set it up and then forget it reliable. We use it here to
mirror all our servers to warm backup servers on a rotating basis.

	http://rsync/samba.org/