2009/1/16 Dominic <[email protected]>: > Michael Biebl wrote: >>>> >>>> 2.) If one of the rdiffs goes corrupt (e.g. via a bad sector), all my >>>> older backups are broken. >>> >>> mmm, true I think, you should use raid or (better IMHO) a secondary >>> backup >>> (use rsync). >>> >> >> Is there a reason why you recommend rsync for that? If I understood >> the project description correctly, rdiff-backup should work just fine >> for remote backups. > > The reason I use rsync for the secondary backup is that I just want a mirror > of the data on the first (rdiff-backup) backup machine - including (and > especially) all the rdiff-backup archives. Doing an rdiff-backup of an > rdiff-backup archive would seem too much of a good thing. Or maybe I just > can't get my head around it.
Ah, I didn't mean it that way What I had in mind was something like: rdiff-backup /foo /backup/ rdiff-backup /foo remote-server::/backup/ (both triggered via cron, e.g.) Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? _______________________________________________ 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
