On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 07:59:42AM +1000, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
A combination of the disk/parition and file level backups is probable best, and also snap shots with LVM.
I would also agree with this statement. For file-level backups look at rsync and various rsync wrappers like rsnapshot, BackupPC. For partition level, you might want to look at LVM snapshots.
Hope this helps,