[SWLUG] Network backups

[Jonathan Wright]

Glenn Booth wrote:
> What do you all use for backups? Any 'dump' fans? Is Amanda
> worth a look for small (home) networks?

I use rsync for all our servers, which does a backup at around 4 each 
morning. As for the permissions issue, it's run as root with the 
--numeric-ids option, which seams to work well for us. We've never had a 
problem with it:

/usr/bin/rsync --archive --delete --delete-after \
   --numeric-ids --log-format="%f (%l, %b)"

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