Re: What to use for backups?

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Justin Dieters wrote:

> If you are comfortable with a hard disk-based solution, this works well for a cheap and fast solution to backups: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
>
> It uses rsync and hard links to do incremental snapshot backups. We have a weeks worth of daily backups of the most important stuff only, and 5 weeks worth of complete weekly backups, plus some misc. backups, and it only takes about 1.5x the space as the original - from about 50 gigs for the original data to 75 gigs for all the backups.

If you follow the kernel lists there's some pretty neat stuff happening with
COW links (copy-on-write) that I'm looking forward to trying when I finally
dive into 2.6.x (probably next year).

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Received on Wed Apr 7 12:23:42 2004