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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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