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  Automated Backups with Existing Tools
Subject:   Why Not Ditto?
Date:   2004-02-12 11:01:15
From:   ponder
Response to: Why Not Ditto?

Ditto is capable of creating a single archive file. No need to worry about a static-size image and ditto can compress on the fly. You can pipe the results to another application or store them locally. Here's a piece of my own backup script, run from cron:


ditto -c -z -rsrc $filesystem - | ssh backup@$DUMPHOST dd of=$filename