> What about software RAID 1 (mirroring)? If the backup is not on another
> physical machine, seems like mirroring might be as easy as rsync, w/o
> any scary scripted rm -rf'ing or --delete. Plus, it's always up-to-date
> (at least between disk sync intervals, someone else can remind me what
> th
What about software RAID 1 (mirroring)? If the backup is not on another
physical machine, seems like mirroring might be as easy as rsync, w/o
any scary scripted rm -rf'ing or --delete. Plus, it's always up-to-date
(at least between disk sync intervals, someone else can remind me what
those are
Check out rdiff-backup. I have been very, very impressed with how easy
it is to use. It uses the same algorithm as rsync to create incremental
diffs.
http://www.stanford.edu/~bescoto/rdiff-backup/
(also packaged for Debian, in the 'rdiff-backup' package)
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> "Gary" == Gary Peltola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Gary> Bascially what i am looking at doing is mirroring the first
Gary> drive to the 2nd drive, and once that intial one is moved
Gary> over, have a cron run nightly (or when specified) that will
Gary> update any modified fi
Im brand new to rsync and i been doing alot of reading about it and it looks like the
tool I have long been wanting.
Bascially i got 1 server, 2 hard drives. partions are
/
/boot
/home
/usr
/var
/backup (2nd drive)
Bascially what i am looking at doing is mirroring the first drive to the 2nd dr
