Offsite backups for the rest of us?

[James Knott]

Sy wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2005 3:21 PM, William O'Higgins <william.ohiggins-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 02:24:05PM -0400, Sy wrote:
>>
>>I've been using subversion to keep laptop and desktop versioned and
>>synchronous, and while it's far from flawless, it does work all right.
>>That said, it's a good ten minutes to synch my ~/Mail tree (500Mb).
> 
> 
> I'm not concerned about speed, only safety and functionality. 
> Subversion seems a bit overblown for this kind of need.  I will look
> into some sort of rsync type thingemy.  Although I do kinda want to be
> able to plug in a backup device, do some checking, and learn what
> files have changed since my last revision.. it would be a valuable
> intrusion detection system.

Then, why not just copy to CD and leave them with someone?  You can 
always encrypt the data, if you're worried about security.
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