Backup to spare drive (rsync / crontab)

[Eric Zimmerman]

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