On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:03:12PM +0200, Chris Maaskant wrote:
Thanks for explaining that to me Houghi. But i'll stick with my rsync method, i see no need for me to having backups that can take me back more than a week. That might make sense when you do a lot of system configuration editing or do some developing or something, but i just play games surf the net do some graphic editing and listen/watch to music/movies.
I do not do a lot of system configuration editing. That makes it so easy to go back such a long time. I now can go back 2 months. This takes 20GB. And that with 4 backups per day. If I would go back 1 week with a backup each day (only one per day) it would take 35GB. So I save space by doing it like I do, because I do not change things that much. The first question I asked myself was how to backup as much with as little space as possible. As a result I got the backup that lasted 2 months. I believe the default settings would be almost one year. This still with 20GB for a 5GB in backups. The extra time is just that, an extra. Not trying to convince you, just explaining it. houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau