I definitely want to add my voice in support of rsnapshot and its kin.
you get what looks like a full backup every time it runs, but it takes
only the space and time of an incremental backup.
you don't have to worry about a huge tarball, where if you lose one
byte, you lose the whole tarball.
all file attributes are presevered too.
restore is really easy, just use cp.
On Dec 10, 2004, at 6:14 PM, Joseph Toon wrote:
> I agree with others who have replied -- rsync + a backup script is
> probably
> the best way to go. I personally use rsnapshot[1] .. it is easy to
> setup (one
> config file) and is run via cron. It is highly configurable. I have it
> backing up my local network and remote servers on a daily basis.
>
> Currently it backs up 4 locations (over ssh), around 56GB (61,904
> files) and
> nightly backups take anywhere from 10minutes to 1hr to complete (over
> cable
> modem/dsl lines).
>
> [1] http://www.rsnapshot.org
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