On Thu, 22 Feb 2018, Dianne Skoll wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 10:33:24 -0500 (EST) > "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> wrote: > > > but what are folks out there using for their backups these days? > > tar? rsync? amanda? > > I use rsync. i'll keep track of the responses i get just to pass them on to the class. regarding rsync, now that i went looking for backup solutions, i just ran across dirvish: http://dirvish.org/ which is apparently a user-friendly wrapper around rsync: http://dirvish.org/docs.html anyway, i'll keep an ongoing list of suggestions. rday