On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 12:17 -0600, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > > > > > Why do you want to use rsync for this? Are you doing something > that you can not do using the -u option of tar or the -f option > or zip? If so, you may want to look at standard backup software. > > Mikkel Hi, Yeah, you're right, I suppose the -u option of tar or the -f option of zip will probably work just fine. The reason I want to backup "changes only" is because I'm going be be doing nightly backups to a remote site and as the bandwidth is going to be limited. Additionally, as the file systems I'm going to be backing up to are SMB, I wanted the data to be compressed and archived into one file so if there are files with unsupported SMB filenames/lengths, they won't get stripped when put onto the SMB volume. I'm going to be doing this for some OS X servers as well. Does this make sense? You think this is an OK way to go about doing an "offsite" DR backup to a SMB volume? Julian
