OFF TOPIC Windows Backup

[Erek Dyskant]

Depending upon how often you intend to restore individual files from
backup, I would consider using rsync and/or rsnapshot to do the daily
backups.  This way you could use standard filesystem tools to restore
files rather than having to use tar.

If you do incremental rsnapshot backups, it would probably use about the
same amount of space as non-incremental tar.gz files.

Regards,
Erek

> a similar situation. The scsi mirror will help with a hardware failure 
> but not a software one. In my situation, I'm just thinking of using tar 
> in a cron to backup some smb shares. Since the data is the critical 
> thing and not the OS stuff, that'll work for me. Instead of getting all 
> incremental too, I just create like folders for different days of the 
> week, then do full tars to each folder respective of the day of the 
> week, this way I have full backups with a week of tolerance, plenty of 
> time to catch something. With the cost of hard drives today, space is 
> cheap. Not the prettiest most well thought out plan but it works.
> 
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