On Sat, 22 Dec 2018, David Fleck wrote:
Personally, I have a script that uses rsync to copy files to an otherwise-unused desktop machine's hard drive. It works for me, but I doubt it's anything near a 'best practice'.
A very reliable backup method uses dirvish <http://www.dirvish.org/>. It's a wrapper around rsync and allows complete control of what's backed up, how long each backup is kept, and files to be excluded. After the vault is initialized only incremental changes are stored. Run it using root's crontab. I've been using dirvish with an external USB-connected hard drive for many years. Haven't yet needed to do a bare metal restoration, but I regularly restore files that turn out to be needed. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
