Best backup option

[Steven Stern]

On 05/19/2010 02:19 AM, Christof Damian wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 03:06, Genes MailLists <lists at sapience.com> wrote:
>> On 05/18/2010 06:06 PM, Steven Stern wrote:
>>>>
>>>
>>> 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).
> 
> rdiff-backup is brilliant. It gives you the browseable backup, so you
> can copy from the last backup directly. But it also keeps a history of
> the increments for as long back as you have space.
> 
> It is also pretty efficient if you use it over the network and I use
> it to make backups of remote servers.
> 
> Christof

I'm on my 2nd day of rdiff-backup and it seems to be working well.

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-- Steve