[PLUG] KVM switch

[Josh Orchard]

> On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Russell Senior wrote:
>
>> Unless you want to save an archival copy, there isn't any good reason
>> to tar to a file.  Instead you can do the tar-to-tar trick (check the
>> archives) or use rsync.
>
>   Thanks, Russell. I need to read up on rsync as I believe that's the
> tool.
> For archival purposes I have the tape backups.
>
> Rich

Rich,

Here is the simple command I use to backup on the same machine.

rsync --archive --verbose /etc /drive2/backup

That backs up the /etc dir to my second drive in the same machine.  But I
use the same command across SSH.

Josh