[luau] Reccomendations for backup routine/tools

MonMotha monmotha at indy.rr.com
Fri May 24 11:49:00 PDT 2002


Not a big deal when there is only one person on the system being backed 
up (my desktop), and only two people using the line each visiting mostly 
different sites :)

I do usually bring up a proxy for LAN parties though.

--MonMotha

Warren Togami wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-05-23 at 19:33, MonMotha wrote:
> 
>>As for browser caches, it might be better to keep an exempt list around 
>>that tells tar to exempt your browser cache (and possibly other things) 
>>from being backed up.  This way you don't have to purge your cache and 
>>take the performance hit in your browser as you have to redownload 
>>everything.
>>
>>--MonMotha
> 
> 
> Why not purge the cache and rely on Squid for caching?  Also set the
> individual browser caches to be smaller.  That allows your per-user
> quotas to be smaller, while reducing redundancy on browser caching.  The
> Squid cache will take care of caching for all clients, saving on
> bandwidth too.
> 
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