On 2018-02-22 10:46, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, Dianne Skoll wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 10:33:24 -0500 (EST)
> > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpj...@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> > > but what are folks out there using for their backups these days?
> > > tar? rsync? amanda?
> >
> > I use rsync.
>
> i'll keep track of the responses i get just to pass them on to the
> class. regarding rsync, now that i went looking for backup solutions,
> i just ran across dirvish:
>
> http://dirvish.org/
>
> which is apparently a user-friendly wrapper around rsync:
>
> http://dirvish.org/docs.html
rsync isn't user friendly? ;-)
I love rsync for getting things across the pond and even comparing things. I
really wish there was an "rdiff" that did what I expected, using the rsync
protocol to just list the differences between two network entities.
> anyway, i'll keep an ongoing list of suggestions.
>
> rday
slainte mhath, RGB
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