On Tue, 2011-08-09 at 17:54 -0700, John R Pierce wrote:
> rsync doesn't much tolerate network glitches in my experience. its
> also a incremental file backup/copy, and won't be doing a 'snapshot' so
> if any of these files you're copying are things that are randomly
> updated like a database, its quite possible for the copy to be useless.
>
> as a backup strategy, having a single copy that you overwrite when you
> make a new copy is weak. you have no history, you can't recover the file
> that the user overwrote 2 days ago and forgot to tell you until today,
> as you just overwrote your backup with his mistake last night.
>
> it really depends on what the point of this replica is, what the usage
> patterns are, what the data archive expectancies are.
What do you suggest for scheduled incremental saves of files changing
irregularly ?
--
With best regards,
Paul.
England,
EU.
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