Re: backing up to ftp server
On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 01:12:06 -0700 (PDT), Alvin Oga
<aoga@ns.linux-consulting.com> wrote:
> > Why ftp? Why not use rsync?
>
> because rsync doesn't keep a copy of the last set of changes
> before it overwrite it ??
Actually, rsync can be used to make incremental backups. Please see:
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/#Incremental
http://rsync.samba.org/examples.html
The second URL describes a 7 day incremental solution based upon rsync.
However, if all the original poster has is FTP access, I would second
the suggestion to use tar with a little bit of scripting.
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