On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 05:06:08PM +0530, Agnello George wrote: > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Eero Volotinen <eero.volotinen at iki.fi>wrote: > > 2010/2/24 Agnello George <agnello.dsouza at gmail.com>: > > > On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Gavin Carr <gavin at openfusion.com.au> > > wrote: > > >> You might want to try brackup (http://code.google.com/p/brackup/). For > > >> very > > >> large trees of relatively small files it seems to significantly > > >> out-perform > > >> rsync-based backups. I've got brackup packages in my repository (see > > >> http://www.openfusion.net/linux/openfusion_rpm_repository). > > >> > > >> Cheers, > > >> Gavin > > >> > > > is it possible with " brackup " to back it up to a different server on > > > the same lan instead of /backup . Is there any documentation on the > > > same . > > > > rsync or rdiff-backup works on local disk or remote disk.(and other > > backup methods too!) > > Does http://code.google.com/p/brackup/ also work in on remote machines . Brackup will backup to local disk, or remotely to ftp, sftp, Amazon S3, or Rackspace CloudFiles targets/servers. So yes, on a lan you can backup over ftp or sftp just fine. Re docs, install brackup, 'man Brackup::Manual::Overview'. I've also written a few blog posts on it: http://www.openfusion.net/tags/brackup. Cheers, Gavin