Re: : Remote rsync question

On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 12:02:19AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   Not using --delete has saved me a few times when I accidentally
> deleted stuff I didn't mean to, and realized it a few weeks later.  I
> weed out cruft manually.  And with 2 terabyte drives, I can keep old
> stuff around.

rsnapshot is handy for backups since it keeps hardlinked trees for
different runs and still does the actual transfer with rsync.  That way
you can keep old versions of files with only the cost in space of the
changed files.  Very nice tool.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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