On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Doug Franklin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2010-01-31 11:01, Adam Maas wrote: > >> Most good backup software leaves readable copies of files on the >> destination drive when copying to a standard filesystem. I tend to use >> rsync-based backup strategies myself, but there's a zillion good >> options on Mac, Linux or PC that don't behave as you suggest. > > That may be true now, but it surely wasn't several years ago when I gave up > on those programs and switched to cp/xcopy. Rsync isn't really a backup > program per se, it's more of a "mirroring" tool to make sure two live copies > are identical. As such, it works for me for some purposes and I use it a on > Unix-like environments and Windows. But for mirroring/increments rather > than full backups. > > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ)
Mirroring fundamentally is a backup tool, just one that also has some extra utility. And with the arrival of cheap HDD storage around a decade ago, it's probably the best backup option for non-corporate environments. And most of the wrappers around rsync do both full and incremental backups. I've been using Cobian on Windows now for several years, prior to that I used rsync cron jobs, but tools like this have been available since the mid-1990's at least. If you can do it with cp/xcopy, rsync will almost always do it better. -Adam -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
