Linux Backups Made Easy

mfago writes "A colleague of mine has written a great tutorial on how to use rsync to create automatic "snapshot-style" backups. Nothing is required except for a simple script, although it is thus not necessarily suitable for data-center applications. Please try to be gentle on his server: it is the $80 computer that he mentions in the tutorial. Perhaps try the Google cache." An excellent article answering a frequently asked question.

Comments

Re:Linux sucks (mod as funny)

[gosand]

A *real* operating system like Windows doesn't need 17 partitions, just one. So you backup one partition and you're done.

I am really tempted to mod this up as Funny, but I am afraid that you are serious. There are so many things wrong with your statements that I don't know where to start. I guess I'll just have to assume that this was a joke, and you weren't really serious. If you *were* serious, then you really really need to educate yourself about these new fangled computer dealies.

Re:Win2k has free backups made easy, too!

[gosand]

Really? You can use Win2k to back up your Linux drives? How does that work? If you will notice, coward, this is not an article that has anything to do with Win2k.

Move along, sheep. Go wait for your shepherd to tell you what to do.