Jerry Feldman wrote:
scheduling in cron. At work we had a WD MyBook which is a very, very slow device. Our first backup took days. (The WD was connected to the same switch as our NAS). I also had to schedule the rsnapshot backups along with an offsite backup to our New York Office. The one thing I
That's the tedious aspect of it. rsnapshot isn't designed for sequential operations. Scheduling that can be tedious.
is current. Also, rsnapshot can be used for Windows systems. If rsync is run on a Unix/Linux file system, such as Cygwin, you do get the advantage of hard links.
Well... sort of. My experience replicating hard and sybolic links between NTFS and POSIX file systems has been inconsistent. That's not something that I would care to rely upon for a backup system. Cygwin doesn't handle NTFS permissions all that well to begin with, and rsnapshot does nothing to preserve ACLs which limits its utility as a backup system in a mixed or complex environment.
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