Recommended rsync tutorials?

Brian St. Pierre brian at bstpierre.org
Tue Oct 19 16:02:12 EDT 2010


On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 8:28 PM, Bruce Labitt
<bruce.labitt at myfairpoint.net> wrote:
>  I'm looking to use rsync on a cron job to do some
> 'backup'.  I've read man rsync and a few 'tutorials'.  It
> looks not too hard - this worries me.  :)

If you're performing backups with rsync, you may want to take a look
at rsnapshot. It uses rsync under the hood, so if rsync works for you,
rsnapshot should too. I've been using it for a couple of years now,
and it has been a lifesaver more than once.

    http://rsnapshot.org/

-Brian



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