Backups, rsync and rsnapshot
I’ve just taken delivery of a spanking new 500GB LaCie Firewire drive for work. I’ve partitioned it in two, with the bulk of the space allocated for video data, but I’ve also made a backup partition for my laptop. I’ve wanted to try using rsync for ages, but I never really had a large enough hard drive spare to try it.
The great thing about rsync is that you can do frequent incremental backups (keeping snapshots of the state of your drive at various time intervals), while not using much more space than a single backup, and while allowing you to easily restore a whole directory structure without having to piece together backup sets.
