[ale] Use opensuse 13.1 to build NAS machine

Alex Carver agcarver+ale at acarver.net
Wed Dec 31 14:23:56 EST 2014


On 2014-12-31 07:49, JD wrote:

> For Linux, I use rdiff-backup. There have been many posts here about it, plus
> ALE-NW has done a few backups-only presentations over hte years. Google should
> find those.  This http://www.kirya.net/articles/backups-using-rdiff-backup/ is
> the best, easiest, rdiff-backup explanation and how-to I've seen anywhere.  If
> you are using rsync, the commands are almost the same, but rdiff-backup provides
> so much more that we need in a backup solution.  I have tried to get the Windows
> port of rdiff-backup working - never worked well after a few years trying, so I
> stopped. Don't have any current data.


I've got several Windows machines at work using rdiff-backup via cygwin.
 Works well enough to keep a functional backup.  In one case I even have
a Windows to Windows rdiff-backup.



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