> What about software RAID 1 (mirroring)? If the backup is not on another > physical machine, seems like mirroring might be as easy as rsync, w/o > any scary scripted rm -rf'ing or --delete. Plus, it's always up-to-date > (at least between disk sync intervals, someone else can remind me what > those are under ext2fs, ~30 sec, IIRC), whereas a scripted rsync would > only be good up to the last go-round on the cron job, nightly in your > example. > > Don't get me wrong, I love rsync, but seems like not quite the right > tool for this job, IMHO. >
We already got RAID 1, and honestly its worthless with file system errors / corruptions since it will in fact mirror errors and all. The only true way to have a reliable backup of your file system is an exact mirror -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
