backup of my / filesystem

[Jerry Feldman]

On 12/22/2008 04:28 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
>
> I wouldn't use dd for backups unless you wanted to restore an exact
> bit-by-bit image of an entire filesystem.
>
> I've found rsync to be very effective, with the important advantage
> that you can run the backup several times and it will only copy what
> changed between one copy and the next. The rsync man page gives
> several examples of this. You might also be interested in rsnapshot,
> which basically wraps crontab scripts around rsync and can keep
> multiple time-related snapshots without wasting disk space.
>
> poc
>
>   
I backup our system at work (500GB) using rsync. Our New York office 
runs rsync against my backup volume. Over the years I have found rsync 
to be a very reliable tool.

-- 
Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
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