On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Jonathan Nilsson <jnilsson at uci.edu> wrote: > > >> >From the little I've read it seems to be very similar to BackupPC. > > > I think the only thing they have in common is that they both use rsync as > the transfer agent. Well, they are both perl scripts... Backuppc just has more of it. > >> Though >> based on the name I guess it is using LVM snapshots? > > > no, rsnapshot does not use LVM snapshots (at least, not that I know of). > it used cp -al to create hardlinks between each backup run. I think it can do something with them, but just locally so it isn't much of a backup. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com