[BBLISA] System Backup thoughts and questions...

[Luke Hankins]

* David Allan wrote:
> Hmm...perhaps it doesn't work on all *nix variants, but I actually tried 
> that before I posted it (on Fedora 10), and it did what I would expect, 
> created /backup/directory/source/directory/<contents>

I believe that, on some variants, tar refuses to untar absolute paths
when you're root; it strips the leading / for you.  No time to look it up,
though, so YMMV.

As for the original question, I'd suggest
http://www.backupcentral.com/components/com_mambowiki/index.php/Rsync_snapshots
as a possible line of exploration.

-Luke