On 12/18/2013, 04:00 , lists at benjamindsmith.com wrote: > I may be being presumptuous, and if so, I apologize in advance... > > It sounds to me like you might consider a disk-to-disk backup solution. > I could suggest dirvish, BackupPC, or our own home-rolled rsync-based > solution that works rather well:http://www.effortlessis.com/backupbuddy/ > > Note that with these solutions you get multiple save points that are > deduplicated with hardlinks so you can (usually) keep dozens of save > points in perhaps 2x the disk space of a single copy. Also, because of > this, you can go back a few days / weeks / whatever when somebody > deletes a file. In our case, we make the backed up directories available > via read-only ftp so that end users can recover their files. > > I don't know if dirvish offers this, but backupbuddy also allows you to > run pre and post backup shell scripts, which we use (for example) for > off-site archiving to permanent storage since backup save points expire. > > -Ben Not presumptuous at all! I have not heard of backupbuddy (or dirvish), so I should investigate. Your description makes it sound somewhat like OS-X Time Machine, which I like a lot. I did try backuppc but it got a bit complex to manage IMHO. Thanks for the tip! Chuck