Backup Questions

[Steve Holmes]

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This assumes you backup your stuff at all:).  What do you folks out
there use for backing up your systems under linux? I've been using tar
lately but I notice that for very large archives, tar is EXTREMELY
slow! It's taking me over an hour to extract a single file from a 20GB
archive.  There's got to be a faster and better way to do this.  I
didn't think it took terribly long to back the stuff up but extraction
takes forever.  Is cpio better for this perhaps? I thought about zip
but I understood there were problems using zip/unzip for backups;
besides, I think there's a 4GB limit on zips; I could be wrong there.
I've heard about amanda but that might be overkill for my residential
setup with 3 computers.

Any ideas welcom.
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