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  Using NFS for Networked Backups
Subject:   Don't use NFS for backup.
Date:   2003-03-14 11:25:49
From:   anonymous2
It's just too scary to have a cracker cleaning up is mess with
rm -r /*
while your backup is NFS mounted no_root_squash.


For backup I recommend
dirvish
rsync
or
storeBackup