Troy Engel wrote: > Les Mikesell wrote: > >>A really nice tool for nightly backups with a history kept on-line >>is backuppc http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/. It probably > > > I've played with this a little, and my comment in the negative is that > it's a do-or-die on a whole system. You don't get fine grained control > of exactly what you want (for instance, I may only want /etc/ and > /var/named/ of the DNS/DHCP server, D:\My Documents\ of a shared Windows > PC, etc) and pretty much have to suck the whole thing up. > > This really isn't a *snapshot* feature, per se - it's a backup. A > snapshot (should be|is) a lot more space conservative and lean running > that won't affect operation of the NAS in realtime. The hardcore > snapshot feature of NetApp/SnapServer really is great, it's hard to > beat. I may be a linux nut, but sometimes a commercial solution is the > right answer for a specific situation. openfiler 1.x supports snapshots along with a multitude of options on handling them in various ways. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219 at icq