On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 11:47 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 4/3/06, Brandin Creech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > And tar works for me, so...
>
> Do you have any experience using the incremental backup features of
> GNU tar? I read the info pages for a while one day, but got bogged
> down in details. There are a couple scripts that ship with tar that
> LFS doesn't install. I haven't gotten around to trying them yet.
> Right now, I just use dated full archives, but I was thinking it would
> be nice to use incremental archives since the vast majority of the my
> data is essentially static.
Talking about incremental backups, I'm surprised no-one has mentioned
rsync. I have a 160G USB drive that I use to back up volatile and
configuration data, (/etc, /home, /boot, /root and the like) on all my
machines. I use RVM which allows me to set up a configuration file that
takes the pain out of it.
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