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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations?
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:44:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090312104459.2c57dd7e@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fbdd0e50903120339y796d3e1ds1c977a160dd1557f@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:39:01 +0100, Geralt wrote:

> If it's just for data, I'm making a daily backup on a flash disk using
> rsync and from time to time a backup on an external hdd drive using
> again rsync. If you tar it up, you can't store the differences only
> anymore, so you have to decide first what you want.

You can store differences within files, but tar is quite capable of
making incremental backups.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Celery is not food. It is a member of the plywood family.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-12 10:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-05 20:55 [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations? James Wall
2009-03-05 15:10 ` Hung Dang
2009-03-05 22:23   ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-03-05 16:48     ` Hung Dang
2009-03-06  0:49       ` comrade b14ck
2009-03-05 22:57 ` James
2009-03-06  5:33 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2009-03-06 11:55 ` Robin Atwood
2009-03-07 14:29   ` James Wall
2009-03-07 16:38     ` Dale
2009-03-08 14:10       ` Robin Atwood
2009-03-08 14:48         ` Dale
2009-03-08 18:53           ` James Wall
2009-03-12 10:39             ` Geralt
2009-03-12 10:44               ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2009-03-13  9:42   ` Liviu Andronic
2009-03-13 12:20     ` Robin Atwood
2009-03-13  3:25 ` fei huang

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