Remote snapshot backups with rsync and Samba

[Rich Renomeron]

Brian Fahrlander wrote:
> Pete Holsberg wrote:
>>  From Hackzine.com:
>>
>> http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archive/2007/10/remote_snapshot_backups_with_r.html 
> 
>      I love the idea of Rsync, though I really can't say I have any use 
> for Samba, it'll provide ideas to improve the backups I make.

If you don't need samba, or the encryption, there's a nice little
utility in the Universe repository called rsnapshot that also uses the
hard link trick.  Makes backups to an external HD extremely easy.

Rich

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