[sllug-members]: easy backups

[Jared Smith]

On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 16:34 -0600, Steve Dibb wrote:
> My situation is this: I have a large directory of all different kinds of 
> files that I want to backup on a regular basis.  Some (*.txt) I want to 
> backup daily.  Some, I want to backup weekly, and the rest monthly.

Check out rsync, and especially rdiff-backup (which, as I recall, is
based on the same rdiff algorithm as rsync).

-Jared