Backup Solutions

[Jamon Camisso]

Neil Watson wrote:
> 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?

No reason you can't rsync a daily/weekly tarball that has all said files.

Jamon

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