On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 04:04:42PM -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 16:17 -0600, Kojak T wrote: > > How was your Back-up made? > > from within Evolution, or just a copy of the folder? > > > > personally, I use the internal back-up in Evolution to one file as > > extra, and use rsync to an external drive. > > Actually I do that for my complete /home folder except my virtual > > machines. > > I back up of my entire system (except programs, etc.) using rsync to a > detachable USB disk every day scheduled by a cron file. It's fast, > usually completes within half an hour, and appears to be compatible with > moderate system use. So I'm content (right now). > Similar to what I do except that I use rdiff-backup which uses a similar "only copy the changes" strategy to rsync but also saves history so that it's effectively an incremental backup.
I do the saves to an 'offsite' system, it's in the garage which is a fair way away from the house. -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
