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Old 03-15-2005, 06:04 PM  
maddox
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Location: Vienna, Austria
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Originally Posted by cool1g
I was suprised to find out today that my dedicated box at ISPrime does not come automatically with any automatic backup for the harddrive. Obviously a HD failure would be catastrophic with no backup. I'm checking with them for the paid backup options but wondering what others here do for their servers...

I have more than 10 servers to backup, more than 500gigs of data. What I do is I have 2 servers just for backups, and I do automatic daily backups with rsync, this is very easy, simply command like this:

rsync --progress -pogave yourhost.com:/ /local-dir-holding-backups
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