rsnapshot: rsync-Based Filesystem Snapshot

Aug 26, 2008, 20:01 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Juliet Kemp)

"That "full backup space" is of course still the gotcha — basically, you'll need a spare disk. However, external disks are increasingly cheap; and rsnapshot can be used remotely with ssh. So you could use one large central disk to keep snapshots of your most important data from multiple clients."

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