[olug] rsync backup (was Fw: kmail ate my inbox)

Mike Hostetler hostetlerm at gmail.com
Mon Nov 29 13:51:46 UTC 2004


On Mon, 29 Nov 2004 12:45:33 +0100, Brian Wiese <bwiese at cotse.com> wrote:
> and my hard drive started knocking this morning, so I'm going to have to
> figure out some rsync on my home dir so that I don't loose it all when my
> drive dies out on me (wouldn't be the first time), yet I'm still so
> optimistic sometimes that I procrastinate to make backups.  =(
> 

I run rsnapshot in cron to a separate drive: 
   http://www.rsnapshot.org/

And someday I'll get around to auto-burning those backups onto CD.

-- 
Mike Hostetler
http://www.binary.net/thehaas



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