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["LW999@hotpost" <linuxworld999@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Nielsen wrote:

> I was just about to setup a raid 1 when I realized I didn't want to
> really accomplish that. What I want is something to backup my system
> incase I fubar something. So, rather than dd my drive every night, I'm
> wondering how I can backup my system where only the changed files get
> backed up rather than the whole drive. I looked at rsync but I'm not
> sure if that's what I want.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Tom
>  
rsync is used to back up specific directories every half an hour.  It 
has been working well for last three or so weeks.

LW999