Mark Schoonover wrote:
You've really got all the info on the basics of rsync. Now, it's a matter of just creating test scripts, reading the man page, etc.
You might want to look at http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/. It will keep a history of backups using compression and links to greatly increase what you can keep on line in a given amount of disk space and can do the backups with tar, smb, or rsync with options to run commands before and after. And there is a nice web interface to browse and restore the backups.