Any one have any *working* solution for the RAQ. As far as I have seen, the cobalt backup solutions DONOT work at all, they are just a waist of time.

About the only other choice you have for backup is to do a network backup, have a cron job, run a script that tars the contents and sends it over to another machine on the network.

Thats a posibility, but have you ever tried it ? We tared a whole raq and then deleted the system off it, restored it via the restore cd and tried to get it restored and it failed.

I have tried using tar method several times. I have restored both RaQ2 and RaQ3 systems without problems (they may have to have the IP address reset, but that's not a problem).

Nowadays, we employ a much better way of doing backup. We use a combination of rsync and ssh. This gives us:

* Performance - only the changed bytes are copied over the network (lesser traffic this way)
* Security - hackers that are sniffing on the network segment cannot read our files while they are transferred over the network.
* Updated - Our backups can be updated every hour or even every 10 minutes. This is due to the speed of rsync. Compare that to weekly backups!

Find rsync on rsync.samba.org

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Jens Kristian Søgaard, Mermaid Consulting I/S,
jens@mermaidconsulting.dk,
http://www.mermaidconsulting.com/
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