On Saturday 29 November 2008 10:00:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > the > > partial inspiration for the talk), although rsync doesn't save older > > data, which I definitely recommend. > > Very minor nitpick, rsync can save older data, and put them in > whatever dir > you want. > > before rdiff-backup i used to use rsync --backup --backup-dir=$date- > based-dir
I'd really appreciate anybody explaining why rdiff does a better job than rsync in my situation: I honestly can't see anything at all: My server (tigger) runs 24/7 The other important machines do a bios wake at 7am At 7:05 the backup machine (elsewhere in the house) via cron does an rsync to all the other machines, then shutsdown. Every month or so I run a version that uses rsync --delete, so all old files are kept on the backup machine until manually cleared Only new files are added, old files are kept until manually deleted, and the only possible flaw I perceive is that ImportantFile is backed up, trashed and tomorrow the trashed version is saved blotting out the original. The daily backup is quick. Having pondered the doco I cannot see any benefit other than saving ImportantFile at the cost of quite a lot more complexity. What have I missed? Thanks James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
