[CentOS] Backup Redux

[Les Mikesell]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Jonathan Nilsson <jnilsson at uci.edu> wrote:
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>> >From the little I've read it seems to be very similar to BackupPC.
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> 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.

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>> based on the name I guess it is using LVM snapshots?
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> 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.

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  Les Mikesell
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