Actually, let me clerify myself: You always have the option to use security by obscurity. If you locate the private documents in an obscurely-named directory on the server, then the only thing you have to do is use some sort of server-side technology (like a scripting language: PHP, ASP, Java, ... et cetera) which is a very trivial thing to do. Good luck On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 07:37:02PM -0500, Andrei Bazhgin wrote: > Well see, thats just wasting space. Why back up somthing that hasn't even been > changed since the last backup? It doesnt really make a lot of sence. This method > does what it is supposed to do, but is not really good when all I can spare for > backup is a 100 GB partition. > > Thanks for the tip though .. I didnt know what it was called. > > On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 02:56:10AM -0500, Scot Jenkins wrote: > > Andrei Bazhgin wrote: > > > Does anyone know of a simple backup sollution for unix? I have a linux pizzabox > > > and a fbsd server and I would go apeshit if I lost somthing on them. > > > > > > I remember some /. reader having some simple sollution that I thaugh was pretty > > > useful and smart. He made diffs of the files on his system every other night, > > > tar/gzip the diffs and store them on a remote server. Every week, the remote > > > server would make a large tarball of all the diffs, and every month it would > > > create an ISO image to be burned onto a CD. Clever. > > > > > > Anyone know of any already-implemented sollutions like this? > > > > rdiff backup? google for it. > > > > personally I use dump(8) over ssh to a server with lots of disk and > > weekly run the backup area out to tape. simple and effective. > > Everyone's backup needs/desires are different so pick the solution that > > works best for you. > > -- > > scot > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > -- > Andrei Bazhgin | PGP Key ID: 0xCD2F19DA > www.nan2d.com | Public key: http://nan2d.com/~after/pubkey.asc > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Andrei Bazhgin www.nan2d.com _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list