Differential backup recommendation?

[Reuben D. Budiardja]

On Wednesday 09 June 2004 12:31 pm, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 07:02 6/9/2004, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> >1. Full backup on day 1 to the backup server.
> >
> >2. Write the full backup to media (either CD-R or CD-RW or DVD-RW, haven't
> >really decided yet), and leave the data in the drives in the backup server
> >
> >3. Differential backup on day 2 to day 7
> >
> >4. Remove lask week backup from Harddrive, then Goto 1.
>
> I believe rsnapshot will do everything you want. You might want to set up a
> mondo image of the box newly-installed, so you can restore from "bare
> metal" with mondo. Then you backup everything you need and restore from the
> rsnapshot backup. That would keep the size of your backups down even
> further.

OK, after Ed's and your explanation I realized that I guess I overlooked some 
of the rsnapshot features :). Thanks for the enlightenment.

RDB
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Reuben D. Budiardja
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