Hi, > Can anyone suggest a good strategy to backup say every two weeks? > When i used to use Windows, i'd use a file manager and just select all > the new or changed files once a month, output in the original folder > structure, and copy the whole thing to a CD, but rdiff-backup looks > more elegant and it's something that i may even be able to continue to > work on as time goes on.
Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding your question and just stating the obvious, but a good backup strategy would be just to run your script periodically. The first time you run it, it will make a full copy, but subsequent times it will update the full mirror, and also store the changes since the last backup. So you don't have to worry about figuring out which files have changed - rdiff-backup will do that for you, and you'll always have both a current full mirror of your data, and the ability to revert the state of your filesystem back to some previous backup date. You mentioned copying the backup to a DVD - depending on how many changed files you have and how close you are already to the capacity of a DVD, you may be able to periodically continue to do that; the size of your backup on disk will only grow as fast as the amount of changes to your filesystem between consecutive backups. Hope this helps, Eric _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
