Re: backing up to ftp server

[Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya stephen

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Stephen Le 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

good links .. but

i guess, i prefer to see multiple files, of what files
changed as of that date
	backup/jun.30.tgz that holds previous 32 days of backups
	backup/jun.23.tgz that holds previous 32 days
	backup/jun.16.tgz that holds previous 32 days ..
	backup/jun.09.tgz that holds previous 32 days ..
	...

	( yes, i do mean make 30-day incrementals every week )

i can see when foo.c was corrupted, on jun 23 or jun 16...
	-  by the tme you find foo.c is corrupt or missing,
	you dont know when it occured

rsync overwrites the data, but didnt save a the old or current copy of the
file it was overwriting/rsyncing

c ya
alvin