[TriLUG] back up your $HOME

[Magnus]

On May 24, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Alan Porter wrote:
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> For the past several years, our standard practice has been to back up
> the OS partitions, but to let users be responsible for backing up their
> own home directories (which also includes their IMAP email storage).

If you want to get fancy with this...

http://rsnapshot.org/

Fun little project to set up, uses rsync so you can --bwlimit it, and effectively gives you a result not unlike what Mac users enjoy with Time Machine.

-M