Re: : Remote rsync question

Vic Gedris <[email protected]>
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On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.

Yes. Highly recommended.  That's what I use for my regular
(hourly/daily/weekly/monthly) backups, and my offline backups on
external disks.  It keeps the old stuff, but without cluttering it up
in one place.

-Vic
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