on Friday 04/18/2008 Neil Bothwick(neil@(protected)
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:34:49 +0200, Remy Blank wrote:
>
> > There are at least two drawbacks to using rsync for mirroring the local
> > backup to a remote host:
> >
> >  - If your local backup becomes corrupt, then so does your remote
> > backup, except if you are quick enough to disable the rsync step.
>
> That's a potential problem with any form of backup, local or remote. The
> truly paranoid would use two different backup methods on two physically
> separate destinations.
>
> >  - If you have disconnection during the rsync step (happened to me
> > last night), your remote backup is temporarily corrupted.
>
> That should be fixable by having the script that runs rsync check the
> return value and try again if it fails.

Would not these problems be solved by something like rdiff-backup
which I have been using for a short time. Its not encrypted, however
and I am not sure what happened to the developer, but it does seem to
work.

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