Best way to backup cyrus system (lots of inodes!)

Rob Siemborski rjs3 at andrew.cmu.edu
Fri Nov 22 12:26:38 EST 2002


On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, John Hughes wrote:

> How are you doing the actual backup?  I cannot recommend vxdump
> too highly, it is rather awkward to use but *MANY* times faster
> than tar or find/cpio, especialy if you're doing incremental
> backups.

We're using amanda going to a RAID array on another system.

-Rob

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