On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 17:19 +0100, Andreas Vinsander wrote: > Nick Smith wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 11:04 -0500, Nick Smith wrote: > > > >>i read up on the man page of rsync and got that this command will backup > >>my server to another external drive i have: > >> > >>mail root # rsync -avz / /mnt/backup/ > > You should at least exclude /sys /proc /dev from the backup > > A better alternative might be to use rdiff-backup which will do pretty > much what u want including incremental backups and restores... > > /Andreas > well what is the difference between rsync and rdiff-backup if the latter is based on rsync? was there something added?
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