On 05/14/2007 04:38 AM, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/14/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 06:44:26PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: >> > >> > I'd suggest considering rdiff-backup instead. It results in a plain >> > unencrypted and uncompressed tree, exactly like rsync, but in addition, >> > does real incremental backups. The increments themselves are binary >> diffs >> > and are compressed. It's much nicer than plain rsync with snapshots. >> > >> Good point. What I like about the rsync snapshots is that I can >> "browse" back in time. In my case, I always have hourly snapshots going >> back four hours, daily snapshots going back four days and weekly >> snapshots going back four weeks. That works out rather nicely in that >> it is trivial for me to compare files across snapshots. > > > Though I have never tried rsync, I can tell what I use and it is very > simple and straightforward. I use a simple shell script to backup the > files in my home dir to the windows partition as well as mirror it to > a remote ftp server using lftp. > > lftp is I think the best tool for remote backups. It supports many > protocols and supports commands from a file, so can be automated > compeltely. It has an option to mirror dirs either way and will only > update the files which have changed. > > Try it out, you'll love it. Another cool console ftp client which uses > arrow keys to browse is cftp. Try this out too, tho this is not for > backing up. >
I like duplicity; encrypted, incremental local or remote, multi-protocol support. Check it out. Regards, Ralph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
