Mitch (WebCob) writes:
Or is there another backup method I should be using?
[Mitch says:] You can also tar / gzip or bzip BEFORE you back up - makes rsync a lot less efficient - but so does windows ;-) If it's all you got, that's your best option - another option is to buy a second hard disk for the *nix box and use it for your backups.
I think if you intelligently tar things up, WITHOUT gzipping, rsync should work well -- it should be able to optimize its way past the unchanged, unencrypted, messages in the tar file.
The trick is to make sure that the files always get tarred up in the same order. Actually, I think that cpio would work better, since cpio takes the filename list on standard input, which can be sorted.
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