On Friday 29 August 2025 02:14:12 pm alain williams wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 02:15:29PM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > On Friday 29 August 2025 07:16:19 am Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > There are backup suites > > > that build on top of rsync, giving you a way to store many backups > > > without needing to store duplicate copies of the unchanged files. > > > > > > > Care to list some of those? I need to get some kind of a backup process > > going here... > > One that I wrote myself years ago and use daily: > > https://www.phcomp.co.uk/tmp/RsyncBackup-1.52-0.0.tar.gz > > It is designed to backup several machine to a backup server; but works well on > a single machine running rsync on localhost. Looks interesting. What I have to deal with here are this workstation and a file server, and in the near future a second workstaation will be added. One complication that I'm not sure how to deal with yet is the mail in this virtualbox setup, the file is quite large. Perhaps there's a way to export it, I'll have to look into it...
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