[sllug-members]: easy backups

[Bart Whiteley]

On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 16:55 -0600, Jared Smith wrote:
> 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).

Yep.  I've deployed solutions based on these principles on a few
networks, even windoze. 
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

Nice use of rsync and hard-links.