How do you do your rsync backups?

[learningcurb]

I ran across a very interesting link that provided some interesting tips on rsync backups:

http://www.halfgaar.net/backing-up-unix

Among the more interesting switches are:

--archive --sparse --numeric-ids --hard-links --delete --delete-excluded --delete-after

[beercz]

http://rsnapshot.org

I run rsnaphot from a cron job on my server daily to back up my laptop. Uses rsync over ssh (with keys).

Been doing this for ages now - runs beautifully - never lets me down.

[drumsticks]

http://rsnapshot.org

I run rsnaphot from a cron job on my server daily to back up my laptop. Uses rsync over ssh (with keys).

Been doing this for ages now - runs beautifully - never lets me down.

+1.

I rsnapshot daily (hourly is overkill for me) to another partition on the same hard drive (laptop), then occasionally (every week or two), I rsync the entire rsnapshot backups to an external hard drive.

[ghindo]

I use rsync to back up files from my laptop to my server with Grsync.