Remote snapshot backups with rsync and Samba

[Jack Bowling]

On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 05:52:47PM -0400, Rich Renomeron wrote:
> 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.
>

I use it. Recommended. It has one little quirk: if you run out of disk
space on your backup medium, there will be a rather cryptic message in the
/var/log/rsnapshot.log to do with /bin/cp not being the right version or
something like that. Where in reality, you have run out of disk space :)

Jack