on Friday 04/18/2008 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:34:49 +0200, Remy Blank wrote: > > > There are at least two drawbacks to using rsync for mirroring the local > > backup to a remote host: > > > > - If your local backup becomes corrupt, then so does your remote > > backup, except if you are quick enough to disable the rsync step. > > That's a potential problem with any form of backup, local or remote. The > truly paranoid would use two different backup methods on two physically > separate destinations. > > > - If you have disconnection during the rsync step (happened to me > > last night), your remote backup is temporarily corrupted. > > That should be fixable by having the script that runs rsync check the > return value and try again if it fails.
Would not these problems be solved by something like rdiff-backup which I have been using for a short time. Its not encrypted, however and I am not sure what happened to the developer, but it does seem to work. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list