Re: (cheap) backup options for RHEL 4

"(is there anything other than tar, cpio, dump, etc.. that i'm
missing?)"

I've found rsync to be simple and quick, if you have enough space off
site. I have this set up as a cron job to run every night.

rsync -avze ssh user@server:/ImportantStuff /backupPlace/

You can use the delete option, too, to keep it exact with what you have
on the live server. This doesn't help me much, as I usually am
restoring what others deleted :)

rsync -avze ssh --delete user@server:/ImportantStuff /backupPlace/

Amanda would probably be better, from what I hear, for real stuff, but
this works great for me for quick restores when users delete crap.

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