On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 17:14 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: > On 05/18/2010 04:50 PM, Jeff Sadino wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I was wondering what everyone's opinion is as to the best > > command/program to use for backups? I don't need to preserve the > > partition table, basically just copy files to a backup hard drive. > > > I like rsnapshot (http://rsnapshot.org/). It is essentially a perl > script that essentially uses rsync to keep hourly, daily, weekly > backups. One of the nice things about the way it works is that files are > hard linked so that it does not unnecessarily duplicate files. I > currently have mine set to do the hourly backups every 4 hours. Daily, > weekly, and Monthly are simply a renaming operation. You can set it to > run as frequently as you want and to retain a few or many sections as > you want (like 4 hourlies, 7 dailies, 4 weeklies, ...). +1 poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines