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Re: what's wrong with rsync?



will trillich said:
> what's wrong with rsync?
>
> i'm heartily exploring backup methodologies and from what i can
> tell,  rsync  sure looks like "the bomb".
>
> any drawbacks? some good reason to NOT use it? something better?

rsync was the primary backup method at my last company, I use it on
my home lan too.

a bit over a year ago I wrote an semi extensive script for the backups
at work, it worked out well, I'm no expert at scripting(not even that
good!) but it worked wonderfully day in day out.

http://portal.aphroland.org/resources/rsync/rsync-script.tar

nate





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