https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11086
--- Comment #3 from Kevin Korb <rs...@sanitarium.net> --- What you have is a mirror not a backup system. Sure, it can protect you from accidental deletions or disk failures but it wouldn't protect you from intentional data destruction (think virus or hacker). Yes, I was referring to date+time based "snapshots". That is what rsync with --link-dest and some scripting can do and that is what most of the rsync based backup systems use. I prefer to have many backups in a system. That way I can restore data from the past if I need to (which I have). It is pretty trivial to boot from something like SystemRescueCD and restore your whole system from such a backup. In fact, if your backups are on a different system and you setup a network boot environment you can boot from the backup over the network. I did that once when my desktop became unstable and I was trying to figure out if it was a hardware problem or if it was caused by recent updates. When I could duplicate a several day old problem on your computer with the software it was running a month ago I knew it was the hardware that was bad. Turned out there was a leaking capacitor behind the heatsink on the video card. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the QA Contact for the bug. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html