On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 09:37:50PM -0800, Brian wrote:
This whole thread is making me feel ok with rsync to a separate drive, or tar and gzip what you care about.
rsync to a separate drive has the problem that if you lose power in the middle of a backup, your backup is in an indeterminate state. If that power failure caused drive corruption, you might not be able to easily recover. Make sure that you give rsync at least '-a' and '-H'. You probably want '--delete-after' as well so that stuff you delete goes away. rdiff-backup has promising attributes as well, although there isn't an easy way to rotate the backup data off to other storage media. You could probably do ok, if you rsynced to two drives and alternated between them. GNU tar works fairly well, even doing proper incrementals, when invoked correctly. I have a python scripts to do this, if anyone is interested. Having multiple copies of what you care about is always a good idea. I use 'unison' between several machines for data that is important to me. Dave -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
