Backup to spare drive (rsync / crontab)

[Peter Boosten]

On Jan 30, 2009, at 22:28, "Eric Zimmerman" <eric at mikestammer.com>  
wrote:

> On Fri, January 30, 2009 11:37 am, drcubi at yahoo.com wrote:
>> I am using rsync and crontab to perform scheduled backups on FreeBSD
>> AMD64 Rel. 7.0
>> I am following process described here for rsync :
>> http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/examples.html
>>
>
> You should check out the rsnapshot port. it does what you are  
> looking for
> and more. It will save you a lot of scripting, etc and it works  
> great. I
> have been using it as part of my backup procedure for a while now  
> and it
> works well.
>
> Eric
>
>

Lot's of solutions: I use dirvish, also from the ports.

Peter
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