Comments on: Automate Your Backups http://makezine.com/2009/03/17/automate-your-backups/ DIY projects, how-tos, and inspiration from geeks, makers, and hackers Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:18:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: super_J_dynamite http://makezine.com/2009/03/17/automate-your-backups/#comment-275500 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://makezineblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/automate-your-backups/#comment-275500 My $0.02:

1) If you’re only going to use Cygwin for rsync, it would make more sense just to find a version of rsync compiled for Win32. Scheduling can be done with Windows’ native scheduler.

2) If you’re backing up to a USB drive, you probably have the bandwidth to just copy everything over in it’s entirety (instead of using rsync to only transmit deltas) using xcopy.

]]> By: s2156945 http://makezine.com/2009/03/17/automate-your-backups/#comment-275501 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://makezineblog.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/automate-your-backups/#comment-275501 Data Loss is mostly from human error. You don’t always notice your error straight away (See “ohnosecond”).

Rdiff-backup is a smart combination of rsync with rdiff to efficient store both a mirror of your data and change-sets to go back in history. You can simply delete the oldest changesets to save space.

See http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/

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