On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 02:08:31PM -0600, Randall Smith wrote: > Since you mentioned rdiff-backup, I plan to compare the two. I'm just > trying to avoid a several day restore if someone walks out the door with > the primary server or it blows up or whatever.
rdiff-backup is like rsync, only it saves 'reverse diffs' of your files along with the latest copy. So if you look in /path/to/backup/somefile.txt on the remote machine, it's the same as somefile.txt on the local machine. But then there will be reverse diffs that can get you back to an earlier version of somefile.txt if you want them. You'll almost certainly notice no performance differences between rdiff-backup and rsync, but the functional differences are pretty acute. > I'm not using X, so that's not a problem. My point was more general: the job of figuring out which specific files scattered throughout /etc and /var are specific to your hardware is annoying. My advice would be to just exclude whole directories that you know contain files which shouldn't be backed up -- directories like /sys, /proc, etc. -- Stephen R. Laniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cell: +(617) 308-5571 http://laniels.org/ PGP key: http://laniels.org/slaniel.key
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