> and thus your backups eventually get overwritten with bad stuff. I use rsync's --link-dest to get Time Machine-like backups so they can't be overwritten thro

> and thus your backups eventually get overwritten with bad stuff. I use rsync's --link-dest to get Time Machine-like backups so they can't be overwritten through the backup system itself. I don't take the "shut it down" precautions with this system the other person does, though I do have a separate in-place one that's strictly manual (as in I have to physically plug it in to update).