On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Bryan Murdock wrote:
I recently typed rm in a place where I wished I hadn't, and I started thinking about how I have no backups at home. I've since done some reading on that crazy internet thing about different strategies and automated scripts that are available for backing stuff up, and I've also read Mike's repeated recommendations to raid, and none of it sounds really good to me.
I also use rsync. I prefer it to tar because it's way easier and faster to retrieve a file that you accidentally fat-fingered into the bit bucket. Just stick something like this:
rsync -auvze ssh --delete /my/data/files/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/backups/
in your crontab to run nightly. You can set up a passwordless ssh-key tied to a single command too (run "ps" on the server to see what command it's actually running), or more complex ssh-key management tools for the more security-conscious.
~ Ross
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