ceejay wrote:
Lost Viking;166235 Wrote:
If I am not wrong, this is a LINUX only program. Whack me, but I am not
(yet) using Linux. Is there an alternative available for Windows?
I use Microsoft's SyncToy (free download). But I prefer to have my
library backup initiated manually - sod's law states that any automated
backup always kicks in just before you realise that you've just messed
up your data...
This is as opposed to my file system backup which is automated because
it's small enough that I can afford to keep several rolling copies.
The rsnapshot script is Linux only because it uses hard links (a Unix
feature) to keep the snapshot sizes as small as possible. Each snapshot
is a complete copy of the filesystem when it was backupped, but the
files that haven't changed since the previous snapshot are just hard
links that don't take up any space.
I keep 7 daily and 8 weekly snapshots of (currently) 121GB in
photos/music/movies & documents and it takes up only 128GB on the
snapshot drive.
That gives me 2 months to realize that I messed up my data. I know that
even that may not always be enough.
Manual backups are no good for me. I often forget them and they give me
this semi permanent nagging feeling that I'll pay for to avoid.
Regards,
Peter
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