Re: [opensuse] Backup Process

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The Sunday 2007-12-30 at 16:48 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote:

Just curious what y'all use to back up your /home folder.

rsync to an external drive on usb, normally upowered. I'm thinking on using rdiff, which is more or less a variation of rsync.


I see that KDAR is no longar maintained so I'd like to move on to something
that will be around when opensuse gets louder.

But I believe plain dar is. I found it to slow, though. I wish rsync could do a little compresion...

- -- Cheers,
Carlos E. R.

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