From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LhiPT-0006Z1-N6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:45:07 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B6F7FE0377; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:45:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8286CE0377 for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:45:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit.digimed.co.uk (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E1E903D5D0D for ; Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:45:05 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:44:59 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations? Message-ID: <20090312104459.2c57dd7e@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <49B03C4F.1050701@gmail.com> <4e97d4190903070629w5e7583b8rf3af26dd76eb42a0@mail.gmail.com> <49B2A31A.5090700@gmail.com> <200903082110.06878.robin.atwood@attglobal.net> <49B3DAA4.5080909@gmail.com> <4e97d4190903081153v392acaf3m3d24c92734ac08a0@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1cvs11 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/VaKpQ_v6v5PViZteB0Z+JKT"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 2bffa0ee-3400-4491-bb52-6eb528e86303 X-Archives-Hash: 7220bfe46d4d33f02e56a223d7613628 --Sig_/VaKpQ_v6v5PViZteB0Z+JKT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --=20 Neil Bothwick Celery is not food. It is a member of the plywood family. --Sig_/VaKpQ_v6v5PViZteB0Z+JKT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkm457AACgkQum4al0N1GQPrsACePY/Hmf30MGiBFcHJkDmhpInA 63QAn36Bdxwnh5/SV2OCfrCNHG+fYCc+ =ntmK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/VaKpQ_v6v5PViZteB0Z+JKT--