[GTALUG] Backups for files

Lennart Sorensen lsorense at csclub.uwaterloo.ca
Thu Nov 5 16:38:47 UTC 2015


On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 04:13:50PM -0500, Digiital aka David wrote:
> Totally agree. I like to keep my stuff on a server I can control. I was
> just using gdrive as a option. As for rsnapshot it should work on gdrive,
> since it's mounted just like a normal drive. The only difference you will
> see is the speed of transferring files to it. It looks and acts just like a
> 'usb drive' .

rsnapshot takes advantage of a local copy being fast and then doing rsync
of the delta, so I don't think it can run efficiently to a remote drive,
only from a remote machine that can run rsync.

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Len Sorensen


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