Re: [Evolution] Disaster strikes -- 4000 messages deleted

[Chris G <cl isbd net>]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 04:04:42PM -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 16:17 -0600, Kojak T wrote:
> > How was your Back-up made? 
> > from within Evolution, or just a copy of the folder?
> >
> > personally, I use the internal back-up in Evolution to one file as
> > extra, and  use rsync to an external drive. 
> > Actually I do that for my complete /home folder except my virtual
> > machines.
>
> I back up of my entire system (except programs, etc.) using rsync to a
> detachable USB disk every day scheduled by a cron file.  It's fast,
> usually completes within half an hour, and appears to be compatible with
> moderate system use.  So I'm content (right now).
Similar to what I do except that I use rdiff-backup which uses a
similar "only copy the changes" strategy to rsync but also saves
history so that it's effectively an incremental backup.

I do the saves to an 'offsite' system, it's in the garage which is a
fair way away from the house.

-- 
Chris Green