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He actually was doing a remote backup (although probably not a cold backup). Unfortunately, he had used mount instead of rsync over ssh, making it vulnerable to
by jasonjei 11y ago
He actually was doing a remote backup (although probably not a cold backup). Unfortunately, he had used mount instead of rsync over ssh, making it vulnerable to the rm -rf command.
- zyxley 11y agoThat's not a backup, it's a mirror.
- awqrre 11y agoa mirror is kind of a backup if you don't update it live... but of course you should have other backups that are offline.
- jasonjei 11y agoAre you suggesting that you can't backup with rsync? Because you can do full and incremental backups with rsync. In fact Time Machine on OS X looks like it does backups in this manner...
- cyphar 11y agoJust using rsync to make copies isn't a backup. If you use rsnapshot (which stores each copy separately) then you have a backup. Copies are not sufficient if you find out that something broke three weeks ago.