[wplug] new HDD

[John Harrold]

Sometime in February Brandon Kuczenski assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| These are great - thanks.  This is especially good since I'm beginning to
| design some kind of 'backup' regimen.  I was planning to just write a
| handful of scripts myself, but it occurs to me that there is probably some
| kind of 'standard' tool that people use to perform routine, maybe
| incremental, compressed backups.  Is there?  It seems like 'tar' is the 
| right tool to me.

not to harp on rsync or anything ;), but it works really well for backups,
including incremental stuff.  i started with the first script on this page:

http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/examples.html

and modified it to have a daily backup with 7 day incremental. it works
really well if you have the extra space.

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