[Gllug] Cant enable DMA

Stephen Harker steve at pauken.co.uk
Mon Feb 27 13:46:19 UTC 2006


Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:26:32AM +0000, Tethys wrote:
>> Bruce Richardson writes:
>>
>>> What you describe is really a mirror, not a proper backup.  It can be
>>> part of a backup scheme but it is simply not, in itself, a backup.
>>> You have no historical archive, you have a one-off copy.
>> Errr... no. rsync is just a tool. How you use it determines whether
>> you have a true backup or not.
> 
> And that conflicts with what I said precisely how?  I didn't say that it
> wasn't a backup because it used rsync, I said it wasn't a backup because
> there was only the one, synchonised copy.  Doesn't matter what is used
> to do the mirroring.

To be fair, you only assumed that there was only the one copy. He never 
specifically stated how he was using rsync on the remote box.

Stephen
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