Re: Backups with rsync [Was: Is my root partition dying?]

On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 11:06:10 PM Erik Christiansen via luv-main wrote:

I'm not grokking the benefit of doing the rsync _and_ a "cp -al". I just include -aH in my rsync options, the -H to preserve hard links. Seems to work.

The idea is to have snapshots over time, rather than a single snapshot. For instance as implemented in: http://rsnapshot.org/ All the best, Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC