Best backup option

[Steven Stern]

On 05/18/2010 08:06 PM, Genes MailLists wrote:
> 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).
> 
> 
The backup tree on the USB drive is right there, too. Aside from using
the backups to restore major pieces of the file system after a clean
upgrade, I'm generally looking for the file(s) I just deleted.

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-- Steve