hiya everyone!!!
i would like to know if theres a third party software or some configuration in order to backup some files from fedora 5 to red hat 9.. they are in separate computer. And i would like to put some sheduled tasks for red hat 9 to automatically backup files from fedora 5 to itself...
Use crontab on the RH9 m/c to run a little script that pulls the data from the FC5 machine, according to your schedule.
You could use one of several methods to make the data available, and it depends to an extent on what sort of network link you have between the machines.
1) NFS - the simplest but least secure option if the machines are on the same lan, or a fast enough wan.
2) FTP - easiest across the internet (least config) but not very secure.
3) SSH - most secure, but slower, and a bit more involved to set up.
4) RSync - secure and fast, but more time-consuming to set up.
The way you make the files available will determine the backup methods available to you.
For example, with NFS, you can just use "tar", possibly with compression to save space, wheras with FTP, you would need to pull the files to the RH9 machine before tarring them up.
What is the nature of your data - does it need security, is it huge, is it constantly varying, is it in just a few big files, or millions of little ones, etc?
What is your network link?
If you can answer these questions, I can suggest an approach.
hth,
-cybervegan
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