Backing up.

[Matthew Flaschen]

Brendan wrote:
> On Monday 10 November 2008, Tycho Andersen wrote:
>> rdiff-backup will create a mirror of a particular directory, where each
>> subsequent backup will be incremental. It will also let you explore the
>> revision information, which is stored in a special subdirectory. It
>> can function like rsync, doing remote backups over ssh efficiently.
> 
> It functions that way because it's based on the same protocol.
> 
> I can only recommend rsync/tar/rdiff-backup in conjunction with something off-
> site like rsync.net

Why?  I've used it successfully to do local backups to a USB drive.

Matt Flaschen