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[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

John Andersen wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Carlos E. R.
> <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >  The Monday 2008-03-31 at 00:15 +0300, Stan Goodman wrote:
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> >  > I would be grateful for advice about backup software appropriate for my
> >  > situation, and for remarks people using such utilities, including what to
> >  > avoid. I can see that there are several packages available through YaST,
> >  > but it would be helpful to know what others think about them and about
> >  > relative advantages.
> >  >
> >  > I have only one Linux system here, so network capability is not important.
> >  > I do not have a tape drive, but would be read carefully any remarks about
> >  > whether I need one. If not, then it would have to be something capable of
> >  > bridging DVDs for a total backup, and  probably CDs for incremental
> >  > backup.
> >
> >  To DVD, "dar".
> >
> >  To an external HD via USB, rsync and the variants they have already told
> >  you.
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> Cheers for an external USB hard drive.
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> Boo for the Rsync.
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> Rsync is NOT a good backup tool.  Backups should be a point in time
> image of the file system.  Rsync wants to match changes on a file by file basis,
> which means if you delete a file rsync dutifully deletes your backup
> of that file.
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Did you use the --backup option?


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