Backup Solutions

[Alex Maynard]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Jamon Camisso wrote:

> 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.

Thank you. That sounds like a good suggestion.

Alex

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> Jamon
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