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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rsync rules question
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 19:11:12
Message-Id: 20201014191059.GA15614@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rsync rules question by antlists
1 On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 06:51:39PM +0100, antlists wrote
2 >
3 > Horses for courses, but if you are planning to keep your backup
4 > long-term, this could do a good job, provided you remember when you
5 > deleted that lost file from your live system :-)
6
7 I'm not looking for long-term backups. I have other methods for that.
8 The whole point of a "hot backup" is to have another machine ready to go
9 if/when the main machine dies. That means a /home/<userid> on the
10 backup machine with all the files from the main machine.
11
12 --
13 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
14 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] rsync rules question Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>