Scheduled system backups program

Charles Ulrich charles at idealso.com
Fri Aug 20 06:40:43 PDT 2004


adam said:
> I don't know much about backups, but i'd say look into rsync (someone
> else answer w/something better please).

We use rdiff-backup (port: sysutils/rdiff-backup) where I'm at. Does local and
remote incremental backups using librsync. It's not a complete solution on its
own, but takes a lot of the work out of it so you don't spend weeks hacking up
your own solution out of rsync. Read all about it at
http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/.

-- 
Charles Ulrich
System Administrator
Ideal Solution - http://www.idealso.com


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