On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 05:48:35PM -0400, Douglas Alan wrote: > The last time someone asked about disk-to-disk backup solutions, people > mentioned both FauBackup and rsync. So, now I'm in the same boat and I > decided to check them both out. At first I thought a specialized backup > tool like FauBackup might be better for backups than a general tool like > rsync, but in going over the web pages for each, I don't notice anything > that Faubackup does that rysnc doesn't also do. Is there any reason > that I should prefer Faubackup to rsync? Without a good reason to > prefer it, it seems that I should go with what is more general and more > widely used.
You might want to look at http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ Which talks about how to do low-overhead snapshots using hard links and rsync.... -j --- Send mail for the `bblisa' mailing list to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'. Mail administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED]'.
