[Techtalk] differential backups...

Rudy L. Zijlstra rudy at edsons.demon.nl
Mon Aug 25 20:10:35 EST 2003


Walt wrote:

> I'm using a 240 gb IDE array as a weekly backup to a
> scsi array. So, I copied over everything the first time.
> Now, how can I copy over again but only the updated
> or new files? Is it possible to do this simply?
>
What is your goal? Just to have an exact copy, or also to be able to 
rollback changes?

If the last, take a look at rdiff-backup, which is build for situations 
like that.
It lives at: http://rdiff-backup.stanford.edu/

Cheers,

Rudy



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