There is also a package called rdiffbackup which is based on rsync, which can do a smarter job of incremental backups.
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ If you want to keep a pair of directories in sync, so that you can recover it, then you might want to consider unison. It keeps two directories in uniform relationship, independent of which directory gets changed. But it does not make incremental backups. Remember that a backup which is automatically backedup, is also automatically backing up typos and mistakes. There are two things backups are good for: Catostrophic disasters and for historical recovery from typo's and thinko's. You may need to have backups for both cases. My rule of thumb is: Data is not backed up if it is not on at least three different media. Ralph Zeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: % rsync % % On 04/02/06 11pm, Martin Kelly wrote: % > I was wondering if anyone knew of a backup program that will compare two % > directories and only copy the directories that have changed between the % > two. This does not have to be over the network, local is fine. My % > intended application is for everyday local backups of > 10GB; I just % > want to speed it up, since many directories do not change every day. % > % > Thanks, % > Martin % _______________________________________________ % EUGLUG mailing list % euglug@euglug.org % http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug ----- John Sechrest . Helping people use . computers and the Internet . more effectively . . Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . http://www.peak.org/~sechrest _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
