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Re: NFS file size transfer limit?
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Nathan Moore wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I have a small cluster of SL 4.4 machines with common NIS logins and NFS 
> shared home directories.  In the short term, I'd rather not buy a tape 
> drive for backups.  Instead, I've got a jury-rigged backup scheme.  The 
> node that serves the home directories with NFS runs a nightly tar job 
> (through cron),

Nathan,
you might like to look at dirvish to do this sort of disk-based backup.
http://www.dirvish.org


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