On Thu, January 3, 2008 07:58, Peter N. M. Hansteen wrote: ... snip > With any kind of reasonable Internet access, rsync to another machine > is extremely easy to set up and maintain, and once the initial > duplication of all data is done the periodic (say once or twice a day) > transfer is almost not noticeable until you need to restore the data > and it's all there, up to the time of the last rsync.
While it is certainly a good idea to do this kind of backup you sometimes end up in situations where you loose files (due to corruption or user error), and then the automatic rsync deletes them from your backup server before you notice it. I would recommend combining it with some kind of incremental scheme (rsnapshot should be good). But then again, I just lost all my data because someone stole my laptop and my backup didn't work. /jtm
