Backup Questions

[John covici]

I have had great success with rdiff-backup -- it does not compress
except for the differences, but the nice thing is that if you want to
restore the current version, you can just copy, otherwise restore of
past versions is quite fast.  Disk space is cheap, so this s a great
solution for me.

on Wednesday 10/29/2008 Steve Holmes(steve at holmesgrown.com) wrote
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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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