On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 16:58 +0100, Paul Smith wrote: > 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 See also rsnapshot, a set of wrappers around rsync which makes it a bit easier to schedule backups, rotate daily, weekly, monthly etc. poc -- 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
