Well, after having some difficulty getting rsync to do exactly what I want, I've become convinced to try rsnapshot. I'll let you know how it goes.
-PT On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 4:14 PM, Peter Tenenbaum <peter.g.tenenb...@gmail.com > wrote: > Jochen, Paul -- > > In thinking this over, I think that the best approach is to simply have a > daily rsync --archive from my main hard drive to the backup drive. While I > understand that more sophisticated backup systems are often useful in a > large system, the system in question is a home computer with only 2 users. > The file complement changes but slowly, and we never delete and rarely > overwrite files, so there's no need to be able to, say, recover the 3 days > ago version of a file. The backup system is mainly there for disaster > recovery, with daily backups preferred just so that we don't lose many > e-mail messages in the event of a catastrophic failure. > > Do you concur that a simple rsync makes more sense in this context, or do > you think that I would still benefit from using either the --link-dest > option or rsnapshot? > > -PT >
