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HowtoForge: Creating Incremental Snapshot-style Backups With rSync And SSH

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 21, 2006

[ Thanks to Falko
Timme
for this link. ]

“As neither human nor computers are perfect (humans err /
computers may fail) it is quite obvious that a good backup system
will prevent too much damage once the computer may go down. This
could be either because the harddrive is failing, because of
hackers, because you accidentally deleted something
important…

“In this tutorial I will show you how to automate backups in an
incremental snapshot-style way by using rSync…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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