Thread: shell script and cron -zipping a folder then archiving on same server

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Old 27-11-2008, 03:55 AM
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It is not hard to write such script. I suggest a better solution called snapshots. rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility. It can take incrementalsnapshots of local and remote filesystems for any number of machines. You can backup those directories to another harddisk on same system or another server. You will also get hourly, montly, daily and weekly snapshots. Can you tell us more about your Linux distro?
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