Re: [cobalt-users] CMU on a RaQ550

["Steve Werby" <steve-lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Jeff Lasman" <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Steve Werby wrote:
>
> > I'm curious how
> > those of you who use rsync as your primary backup method deal with these
> > potential situations?
>
> That's my concern as well.  I think, however, we can use rsync back up
> the entire /home directory, and perhaps the /etc directory.  I'm not too
> sure about the /var/db directory; I think I'd be happier exporting the
> database information to a location in /home before backing up home.

In itself that still doesn't address the situation where files in those
directories on the source machine are deleted, modified or corrupted and
it's not discovered until after rsync mirrors to the destination server
(unless I'm missing something).  And that's exactly the situation I expect a
disaster recovery solution to handle.  rsync is a great tool - it's just
really a mirroring and file transfer tool, not a backup tool for dealing
with disaster recovery and therefore has the limitations I've mentioned.  On
the way to join the masses on the interstate...

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