Re: [Evolution] Backing up Evolution Data

[Tom <tom prost-net de>]

Am Dienstag, den 08.09.2015, 16:55 +0100 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan:
> On Tue, 2015-09-08 at 10:10 -0400, John Lauterbach wrote:
> > It would be a nice addition to evolution to be able to schedule
> > backups at a
> > certain time each day.  I use SpiderOak for offsite backup.  If I
> > could have
> > evolution do this automatically, I would never lose more than a day's 
> > e-mail.
>
> As has been said repeatedly, the "backup" command in Evo is not
> intended for periodic backups but for when you need to move your Evo
> installation to another machine. For one thing, it requires Evo to be
> running (not much use if you want to schedule it at fixed times). For
> another, it doesn't do incremental backups but takes a complete
> snapshot every time. This is almost never what you want in a production
> context. Use a real backup system, of which there are many in Linux (I
> use rsnapshot to a local (...)

Hoping not to go too far OT, but what's the advantage over rsync in this
context ?