Re: backup using rsync
On Wed, 2002-07-17 at 23:47, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> What's the best way to backup using rsync? The idea I'm going for here
> is to back up my /home and /etc to another machine, only dealing with
> one machine dedicated to doing backup work, no tape drive. Basically,
> looking for glorified mirroring. Permissions and ownership needs to be
> preserved.
Isn't there a flaw in using rsynch to do backups in that you
only have a single snapshot of your files, without the ability
to restore or look at old versions of constantly changing files.
It seems like tar, using "--exclude" on web browser and usenet
caches, OOo binaries, etc, or "tar --incremental" would be a
more complete solution.
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