On 12/16/2011 06:16 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. > Does backupPC have the abilty to easily be configured so that each daily incremental and each weekly full backup are stored on different drives, i.e. to rotate drives based on your backup schedule and not just when a drive fills up? I think this might look something like having one drive for each day of the week, 1 for each week of the month, 1 for each month of the year, etc... Thanks, Nataraj