Re: increment backup of home dir

[Chris Green <cl@isbd.net>]

Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> wrote:
> tim wade (HE12025-03-14):
> > besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment backup?
> 
> Ahem. rsync is not a backup tool.
> 
> rsync can be *part of* a backup tool, for example in rsnapshot, or
> manually with filesystem snapshots, but rsync alone does not allow you
> to recover a file you damaged, which is part of the job description of a
> backup tool.
> 
Ah, yes, that's the one I was trying to remember when I suggested
rsyncbackup.  rsnapshot is the one I used to use before I wrote my
own. 

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Chris Green
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