[lug] Automated USB Drive Backup

[David L. Anselmi]

Lee Woodworth wrote:
[...]
> You may find this kind of command useful:
> 
> rsync -v --archive --stats --delete --backup
>  --backup-dir=/backup/history/fileserv/20071026/photo1
>  /photo1/ /backup/fileserv/photo1/
> 
> By keeping per-day backup trees you get poor-mans versioning
> of file changes (only one version per day). For our systems
> we see from 12M to 2,000M deltas (big ones when a photo card
> is uploaded).

I'd say rdiff-backup is an easier way to do this.

Dave