backing up shadow files with rsync?

[Tim]

On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 20:48 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> You pays your money and you takes your choice. If you want every
> backup of your 10GB home directory to take up another 10GB of space,
> go for it. Most people don't actually want that. They assume (naively
> or not) that the backup medium is itself sufficiently reliable, for
> example I'm doing it on a NAS configured with mirrored disks, which is
> fine for my purposes. YMMV of course.

In my case, I was being diligent and backing up things to one of those
external USB drives, and the external drive turned out to be a lemon,
while the originals are all quite fine.  I didn't buy an unusual brand
of disc, either, it was a Seagate.  I'd always been impressed by them,
before.  On the other hand, every Western Digital drive I had, and
friends, lasted little more than a year or two.

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