Backup Solutions

[Alex Maynard]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2007, Robert Brockway wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, 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?
>
> Hi Alex.  Do you allow rsync to delete files?  If so then it is conceivable 
> that you could delete files from your primary box only to have rsync 
> helpfully carry this change to your backups.

Hi Rob, Thanks very much. I was worried about that too and set rsync not 
to delete anything. Of course, this means that it is hard to get rid of
files I don't want anymore, but that seemed the better of the two problems.
So if a file gets deleted I'm okay, but if it gets corrupted the change 
will get passed on to the backups.

>
> Disks are cheap and as has been noted here many of us are using these for 
> personal and small business backups.
>

Thank you! That's another good suggestion.

Cheers,

Alex

> Cheers,
>
> Rob
>
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