[BUGS] Remote backups, imap too

Sam Lawrance lawrance at FreeBSD.org
Sat Dec 8 09:33:43 EST 2007


On 08/12/2007, at 5:29 AM, Jerahmy Pocott wrote:

> Hello,
>
> 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?
>
> I mean incremental backups of large amounts of data over wan, I
> like how rsync only sends the changes rather than the entire file,
> but then if the source file has been removed I may not want the remote
> file to also be removed..

Take a look at rdiff-backup.

Cheers
Sam


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