backup [was Re: Help with a bash script please]

[Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>]

Jochen Schulz wrote:
> Adrian Levi:
>    
> > This is going to be my new backup script,
> >      
> I don't want to keep you from learning shell scripting, but I generally
> advise against scripting your own backup solution. From my experience
> the result is error prone, tends to attract feature creep and is hard to
> deploy to new environments. I suggest taking a look at rsnapshot. It's
> even extensible with custom scripts. ;-)
>    
You might also want to look at backupninja, which is similar.  Works 
with rdiffbackup to generate nightly incremental backups.  I shifted 
from a bash script a couple of years ago - much better results.




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