21 Jul
2003
21 Jul
'03
2:24 p.m.
MJ Ray wrote:
Darren Casey (Personal) darren@darrencasey.co.uk wrote:
I would also recommend using Norton ghost to ensure you have an image handy on cd should the hard disk fail so you can have it backup asap and use something such as rsync to ensure you have an hourly or at worst daily backup of key files.
Anyone like to comment on that compared to LVM, RAID or other normal backup methods? rsync is going to cost on data transfer if used for much, surely?
We use a tool called rdiff-backup (over ssh) which is, essentially, a wrapper around rsync which does incremental backups. It's extremely bandwidth-friendly and as far as we can see, works a treat. No problems so far...
See http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/index.html
Cheers, Laurie.
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