Thanks, I think I was trying to kill a fly with a Bazuca On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:50 PM, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc at msu.edu> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 05:43:46PM -0500, Alfredo Perez wrote: > > > Hello > > > > Thinking of setup a backup process between two Centos systems. > > One will backup to the other one. For those people out there with > > Centos production severs what would you recommend to use > > Do you mean you want the backup machine to be essentially > a copy of the main machine? Or do you mean you just want to > store backup files on the backup machine? > > > > > > Samba or NFS > > Samba or NFS??? No > > To do the first - maintain a copy of the first machine on the > backup machine, use rsync and ssh for 'authentication' and > data transmission. > > For the other, keeping backup files on the other machine, > use dump(8) over the net to the files on the backup machine. > > > > > What is the most common and simple to use? > > As above. > > ////jerry > > > > > > Many thanks in advance > > > > Alfredo > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS at centos.org > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110211/dadfdeda/attachment-0005.html>