On Thu, October 18, 2007 17:58, Josh Luthman wrote:
"Hobbit User" - I could use rsync and it would make backups though I normally don't use rsync as I like to have daily backups, in case I make a mistake on Monday, the backup is done Tuesday and I catch it on Wednesday - I can revert to Sunday with daily backups. Rsync could have backed up my problem making it useless in this scenario! I have a scripts that backup necessary components (like databases) and then finally tar with gzip compression and then SCP the file to a remote data center (I also use public keys to automate this). I have found this works very well in my situation and has saved my life in the case of a MySQL database crash!
Yep, have those preferences as well. The offsite rsync server (actually a retired desktop with a couple of 130 gig drives) has tar-gzip jobs that create generational backups of the rsync tree, so I keep a week's worth that way. Could be more space frugal with find . -mtime -1, but would risk losing something I deleted by accident.