Backup entire system on usb disk

[Tom Horsley]

On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:10:12 +0100
"Zacharie Elcor" <zelcor at gmail.com> wrote:

> Does it make sense to rsync the entire file system ?

I rsync to a usb disk for my primary backups. Of particular
use is the --backup-dir option I can use it to keep
older copies of files in backup directories separate from
the main rsync mirror. That way I can find the copy of the
file from a few days ago as well as the most recent version.