Re: [Evolution] Backing up Evolution Data

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2015-09-14 at 09:51 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > Hoping not to go too far OT, but what's the advantage over rsync in
> > this
> > context ?
>
> Because it does versioning.
>
> See http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ (which is 
> what rsnapshot is based on)

That site seems to be down (or at least very slow), so you might want
to look at http://rsnapshot.org/ for details. Briefly, rsnapshot allows
you to set up an incremental snapshotting backup system. As it's based
on rsync it can do everything rsync does, including minimizing storage
requirements by using hard links on the backup device (except for
directories of course, unlike Apple's Time Machine). Thus you can keep
a complete snapshot of your backup set on a daily, weekly, monthly etc.
basis, with automatic promotion between versions, and each snapshot
appears to contain the complete set even though only changed files are
physically stored. Restoring from a backup is done by simply copying
the files you want from the backup device.

poc