Backup Solutions

[Alex Maynard]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, 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?

Thank you. This is the part I worry about. If I corrupt a file on one 
computer, it will soon be corrupted on all.  I guess I should keep some
older backups that only change once a week/month as well?

Alex

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