Backup Solutions

keith kmastin-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org
Sat Sep 1 19:26:05 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-30-08 at 15:40 -0400, Alex Maynard wrote:
> 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?

The more the merrier. 1/day/week + 1/week/current month + 1/month/year +
1/year should give you enough redundancy to cover just about any
eventuality that we use backups for. 

HTH
Keith

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