darrenyeats wrote:
> Robin Bowes;214209 Wrote: 
>> You have got it wrong!
>>
> 
> Curse that send button! Er, thank you.
> 
> I think I'm going to stick with unison for the time being because what
> I'm after is a kind of mirror function (without using RAID) rather than
> a backup tool per se. Space is (going to be) tight on both the disks.
> 
> Perhaps I can configure rsnapshot to act like a mirror? In which case
> it will be slightly better than unison - as someone pointed out, it
> removes even the theoretical chance of propagating changes in the wrong
> direction. So, if I configured rsnapshot to keep only one generation of
> backup, would it remove / rename files for me like unison? And never
> use more storage than the original files?

If you don't want the snapshots, you just need rsync, not rsnapshot. Or
unison will work fine too.

R.

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