Backup Solutions

[Neil Watson]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:02:51PM -0400, Alex Maynard wrote:
>I just rsync regularly between one home and one work computers and one or 
>two old laptops? Now I am wondering if this is good enough or if I need
>to be doing something else on top of that? Though its only my own data,
>losing it would pose a big cost. Does this seem reasonably or do you think 
>I should be adding some extra safe-gaurds?

It depends on what type of data loss you want to protect yourself from.
When you use rsync what happens to files at the backup location that
were deleted at the source?  Using your rsync method can you restore a
historical file?

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