On Monday 19 September 2005 10:50 pm, Alvin Oga wrote: > > Rsync? > > rsync is extremely bad idea because:
I think rsync is an extremely good idea for data backup. > - whatever caused your main server to die will propagate > itself on your backup server when you use rsync Huh? > - rsync does NOT save a copy of the file before you overwrite it man rsync! But I think the original poster is looking for something like Ghost but for Linux. But for data backup, rsync rocks! Over a network it minimizes bandwidth and with some scripting you can have a very resource efficient backup system. But you may want to go all the way and use backuppc. David [EMAIL PROTECTED]
