[gentoo-user] Re: Suggestions for backup scheme?

[Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>]

On 2024-01-30, Thelma <thelma@sys-concept.com> wrote:

> I backup, periodically:
> - corontab (user, root)
> - etc
> - hylafax
>
> daily:
> - data
>
> It all depend what you want you backup, how large is your data.
> For backup standard "rsync" over the network does the job OK

rsnapshot is a perl app that automates/organizes rsync backups, so
it's doing pretty much the same thing as the script below (though it's
a little more sophisticated).

> I customized this rsync-bacup script:
> https://serverfault.com/questions/271527/explain-this-rsync-script-for-me-linux-backups
> [...]