[BUGS] Remote backups, imap too

Malcolm Butler list+bsd at malb.org
Sat Dec 8 23:14:27 EST 2007


Jerahmy Pocott <quakenet1 at optusnet.com.au> writes:
> Just looking for some options/suggestions on remote backup tools,
> I was thinking of using rsync, but then I was thinking maybe it's not
> really good for backups?

If you can get rsync working in some form, consider using rsnapshot.
It creates a hierarchy of directories containing incremental
snapshots, with hard links to the files that don't change from one to
the next.  The copying is done with rsync, which I use over ssh for
remote machines.


regards,

Malcolm


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