On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Roberto Ragusa <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Are you planning to rsync, twice, once to each drive, or are you looking >>> to establish a software raid 1 between two attached usb drives? >> >> Thanks, Jeff. I am planning to rsync twice, once to each drive. > > Good idea. Sync them in different times; e.g. the first one every day and > the other one every week. In this way you have an older backup if you want > to restore something deleted by mistake. > And keep the "weekly" one in a different (more secure) place. ;-) > > As you use rsync, you may be interested in > > rsync -av --delete /home/psmith/ --link-dest /media/IOmega/backups/myhome/20120605 /media/IOmega/backups/myhome/20120606 > > You can easily have 60 backups taken each day of the last two months and > restore whatever you have deleted or messed up (e.g. diff on what the file is and > what the file was). > > That is the setup I'm using (with dmcrypt, so to not have to worry about > a stolen backup disk). Thanks, Roberto, for your helpful advice and suggestions! Paul -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
