Best backup option

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On 05/18/2010 06:06 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
> On 05/18/2010 03:50 PM, Jeff Sadino wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I was wondering what everyone's opinion is as to the best
>> command/program to use for backups?  I don't need to preserve the
>> partition table, basically just copy files to a backup hard drive.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Jeff
>>
> 
> Here's my script to backup to an external USB drive
> 

  I'd suggest rdiff-backup (steven you may want to look into this).

  It uses rsync library but adds ability to roll back as far back as
you'd like. The backup tree is browsable (just as an rsync backup would be).