Re: [Evolution] Backing up Evolution Data

[Emilio Recio <Emilio Recio jefferson edu>]

RSnapShot allows you to do incremental backups (using hardlinks) vs
Rsync which you would have to script to do what rsnapshot does.
Honestly, if you don't care for point-in-time backups, then just use
rsync. I use them both on a case-by-case basis.

On 09/13/15 11:19, Tom wrote:
> 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 ?
>
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