[mdlug] Periodic backup software (dis)recommendations

Garry Stahl tesral at wowway.com
Mon Aug 16 10:10:58 EDT 2010


John Wiersba wrote:
>
>    /usr/bin/rsync -a    \
>       --numeric-ids     \
>       --relative        \
>       --delete          \
>       --delete-excluded \
>       --link-dest=$PREV \
>       $EXCLUDES         \
>       $FROM             \
>       $TO
>
>   

Similar to the script I use as well.  Mine is even shorter. 

rsync -avz /home'user/ /backup/



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