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Re: Backup config files in home directory



On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:57:09PM +0200, Suno Ano wrote:
> 
>  Matthew> Unison is the "more complicated than necessary" option here.
>  Matthew> If all that is needed is backup, unison is not the best
>  Matthew> choice.
> 
> true, but then having a backup without a clearly defined restore
> scenario does not make a lot of sense. Once Unison is up and running
> that part can be considered done as well.

Likewise for any "rsync+hardlinks" solution (like rdiff-backup). Except
that you get an incremental backup. Hence it's easier to have more than
one copy.

Restore? cp -a . Or your favorite file manager.

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