On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, Ray Leventhal wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for common practices for backing up user data to disk. My user > data is all in /home. I'm also interested in what folks are doing for things > backing up os and configs. > > Any pointers on setting up rsync, cpio, etc would be appreciated. Pointers > to good how-to's especially welcome. > > Currently we're using Arkeia Network Backup (commercial product with which I > am in no way affiliated), and it's great, but with disk space so cheap, I'd > love to be able to take my current non-raid setup and find a way to get up > and running quickly in the case of some failures. Have you looked at rsnapshot <http://www.rsnapshot.org> ??