David Brown wrote: > 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.
I'd like to see them. If they are more than a few screensfull, or require some explaining, perhaps you'd consider publishing them. It sounds like a minor hobby for you, anyway <grin> -- maybe you could fill several wiki pages on the subject? > > 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. > Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
