I agree with others who have replied -- rsync + a backup script is probably 
the best way to go. I personally use rsnapshot[1] .. it is easy to setup (one 
config file) and is run via cron. It is highly configurable. I have it 
backing up my local network and remote servers on a daily basis. 

Currently it backs up 4 locations (over ssh), around 56GB (61,904 files) and 
nightly backups take anywhere from 10minutes to 1hr to complete (over cable 
modem/dsl lines).

[1] http://www.rsnapshot.org

On Friday 10 December 2004 03:15 pm, Mark Phillips wrote:
> What is the best (or at least a good) way to perform backups?
>
> I have about 4.5 GB in my home directory, and I just installed a new 120
> GB drive on my network to use for backups. I tried a simple tar and
> compress, and I ran into a 2.0 Gb file size limitation. There seems to
> be a 2.2 GB avi file in the files I want to back up. After an initial
> backup, I would like to perform incremental backups on a periodic basis.
>
> Is there a Debian package that will handle this task?

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