On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 07:06:36PM -0400, Prof J C Nash wrote: > Has anybody got any experience with rsnapshot. One of the awkward things about all the rsync-based backup schemes is that they don't handle renaming nicely. Renaming a directory causes duplicate copies of all the files to be added to the incremental tree instead of having hard links to already-backed-up files created. As a result, rsync stores more data than it needs to. If you rename a directory near your root, you store everything multiple times. My Ubuntu system came with BackupPC installed and running, and BackupPC stores files based on their md5sum, which means that renaming doesn't fool it. No matter how many copies of a file you have, under however many names, on however many machines, BackupPC stores just one copy. Cool. -- | Ian! D. Allen - idallen [ at ] idallen [ dot ] ca - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Home Page: http://idallen.com/ Contact Improv: http://contactimprov.ca/ | College professor (Open Source / Linux) via: http://teaching.idallen.com/ | Defend digital freedom: http://eff.org/ and have fun: http://fools.ca/