[PLUG] Disk backup/clone & backup applications

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, Paul Heinlein wrote:

> For backups, well, you have many more options, each with its own strengths
> and weaknesses. You'll need to get a better sense of what feeatures you
> want (just a clone of your live filesystem? snapshots?) before choosing
> one.

   While many users think they need only infrequent backups of part of their
systems, they've not recovered from a catestrophic hardware failure, or a
careless slip where the finger hits the [Enter] key before the brain
processes they're wiping out critical files or subdirectories.

   FWIW, I strongly recommend that everyone make daily incremental backups to
an external drive controlled cron. You may never need to use everything, but
if you do you'll never regret having it available.

   That written, dirvish can be a bit of a hassle to correctly configure, but
once set up it works like a charm.

Rich