I beg to differ.
The rsync command is a fantastic backup system. It may not meet your
needs, but it works really great to make different types of backups for
me. I have a script I use (automate everything) to perform nightly
backups with rsync. Using rsync with USB external hard drives works far
better than any other backup system I have ever tried.
As for your other statements, they may be meaningful to you and that is
OK, but to me are just so much irrelevant semantics. If one's backup
system works, terminology and which commands used to achieve it are
beside the point - it is a true backup system.
On 11/09/2015 12:59 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 11/9/2015 9:50 AM, Gordon Messmer wrote:
I don't see the distinction you're making.
a incremental backup copies everything since the last incremental
a differential copies everything since the last full.
rsync is NOT a backup system, its just a incremental file copy
with the full/incremental/differential approach, a restore to a given
date would need to restore the last full, then the last differential,
then any incrementals since that differential, for instance, if you do
monthly full, weekly differential and daily incrementals. If you
don't use differentials, then you'd have to restore every incremental
since that last full, which in a monthly full, daily incremental
scenario could be as many as 30 incrementals.
--
*********************************************************
David P. Both, RHCE
Millennium Technology Consulting LLC
Raleigh, NC, USA
919-389-8678
dboth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.millennium-technology.com
www.databook.bz - Home of the DataBook for Linux
DataBook is a Registered Trademark of David Both
*********************************************************
This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National
Security Agency (NSA) in secret. The parties to this email do not consent to the
retrieving or storing of this communication and any related metadata, as well as
printing, copying, re-transmitting, disseminating, or otherwise using it. If you
believe you have received this communication in error, please delete it
immediately.
_______________________________________________
CentOS mailing list
CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
