On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Ken Teh wrote:
You need to be clear about what you mean by backup. If you are keeping a mirror of your data, rsync is fine. But sometimes you want a version of a file from 3 months ago. rsync is not going to do that for you.
I find that rsync with --link-dest is a good starting point for scripting multiple backups to the same disk (not the one you are backing up) which are good for recovering files in that scenario. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [email protected] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna
