Nic by się nie stało gdyby Agnello George nie napisał: > we have multiple servers approx 10 and each has about 100 GB of data in > the /var/lib/mysql dir , excluding tar , mysqldump and replication how do > we > take backup for these databases on to a remote machine and store them > datewise , ( the remote machine is a 2TB HDD ) > > currently tar is not feasible as the data is too huge and the same goes > with mysqldump > > suggestion will be of great help Why not mysqldump? I suggest mysqldump to local dysk and backup this to remote. I use it with __bacula__. -- Tuptus