Backup Solutions

[Alex Maynard]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 03:40:00PM -0400, Alex Maynard wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Well rsnapshot uses rsync but keeps revisions from each transfer.  I use
> it to keep revisions every couple of hours on a couple of servers.  It
> can also of course transfer remotely by rsync and hence uses the
> standard regular amount of transfers of rsync, but with the advantage of
> keeping historical copies (and by using hardlinks to store the
> revisions, only files with changes require additional space to store).

I don't change that many files that often so this suggestion should
save a lot of hard-drive space for multiple backups. Thanks very much.

Alex

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