Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 14:28:22 -0700 (MST) From: "Eric Zimmerman" <eric@mikestammer.com> To: drcubi@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Backup to spare drive (rsync / crontab) Message-ID: <61874.67.166.123.99.1233350902.squirrel@mikestammer.com> In-Reply-To: <229610.47419.qm@web51408.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <229610.47419.qm@web51408.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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On Fri, January 30, 2009 11:37 am, drcubi@yahoo.com wrote: > I am using rsync and crontab to perform scheduled backups on FreeBSD > AMD64 Rel. 7.0 > I am following process described here for rsync : > http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/examples.html > You should check out the rsnapshot port. it does what you are looking for and more. It will save you a lot of scripting, etc and it works great. I have been using it as part of my backup procedure for a while now and it works well. Eric
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