[Gloucs] Never ask me to admin your server!

[Keith Edmunds]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2004 19:23:02 +0100
Paul Broadhead <lug at twinmoons.clara.co.uk> wrote:

> I'm planning to look into backup options, but for now, I'm just running
> a daily cron job.  All it does is copy any new or modified files to a
> safe place using cp -puvRf <source> <destination>. 

Fine until you have a head crash... I use rdiff-backup to backup a number
of machines to a dedicated backup server. Of course you don't need a
dedicated machine, but rdiff-backup is easy to set up and works well.

Keith

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