Re: Backup Options

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On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 03:10:25PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>> Srikanth Konjarla wrote:
>>> All,
>>>
>>> I use Fedora on my laptop which is primarily for business purposes. So, i 
>>> like to get the data backup from laptop to home desktop machine (over 
>>> ssh) and trying to find an easy and reliable backup tool. I have tried 
>>> pybackpack with rdiff-backup combination but i found it not very reliable 
>>> with at least ssh option.
>>>
>>> Any recommendations?
>>>
>> You may want to think about rsync - it is easy to configure to use ssh to 
>> sync files.
>>
> If you are keeping a complete copy of the laptop or selected 
> subdirectories, I agree, this is a reliable solution, which you can run on 
> demand or just prior to shutdown.

Dirvish is an actively-maintained Perl script that runs on top of rsync,
using hard links to reduce the size of successive generations of copies.
It will do copies across a network using ssh.  I've been using dirvish
for three years with excellent results.

	http://www.dirvish.org/

Good luck.

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