Backing up a directory to a remote file system

[Karl Schmidt]

Jason Clinton wrote:

> 
> I want to perform incremental backups of /pub on a Linux samba server to
> a box on the other side of Kansas City. Some combination involving tar
> looks like the right direction to go but I can't think of a way to have
> tar incrementally compare the files being backed up to the remote
> tarball before the operation begins. I'm not ready to rely on sshfs
> until it is more stable.
> 
> Any ideas? Creative solutions welcome.

Why use reiser? I've seen nothing in any bench marks that it is 
significantly better than the tried and true EX3, (except for a few 
specific tasks that don't represent the real world). Don't get me wrong, 
I hope there is a reason to move to a better file system someday - I 
just don't think that that day is here yet.

Why not just use rsync to bring it home to a ex3 file system? And then 
backup the tree as you would normally? This will also save on quite a 
lot of bandwidth.

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