Steve Werby wrote:
It is also possible to use rdiff-backup (http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/). This solution is like rdiff, exept for differential information that makes it possible to recreate the files from old mirrorings. This can at least double the space needed for the backup, but"Jeff Lasman" <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: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 tooIn 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
then you have "incremental" backups. -- Hans Kristian Eiken