[wplug] Back-up Scheme for large data

George Larson george.g.larson at gmail.com
Sun Jun 9 10:32:19 EDT 2013


Very nice!  I typically make Git repositories everywhere, for this purpose.
Sometimes I'm hacking away on something and later realize I made a wrong
turn and it's nice to be able to roll back or compare my changes.

Thanks for sharing!

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:53 PM, Vance Kochenderfer <vkochend at nyx.net>wrote:

> There is another tool which uses the rsync algorithm to detect
> changes, but maintains a history so you can restore from a
> particular point in time.  It's called duplicity
> <http://duplicity.nongnu.org/>.
>
> Keep in mind that if you are backing up something like a database,
> you'll need to take special measures to ensure the file is in a
> consistent state.
>
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