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Backups with rsync

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Backups with rsync

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- [Instructor] Rsync is a useful tool to copy information between disks or across the network, and it's also a great choice for automating backups. While we can use the standard CP command to make copies of information we want to save, Rsync provides some helpful features we'd otherwise need to handle ourselves, if we'd just use the regular copy command to make backups. One of these useful features is the Delta Copy feature, where Rsync only copies files that have been changed, rather than copying every single bit of every source file every time. This significantly speeds up copy operations, after the initial backup. Other useful features allow us to specify how files are handled on the backup. There are two kinds of backups we should think about when we design a backup strategy. One type is a mirror that is a backup where the only contents of the backup are exactly the same as the source that we're copying from, at the…

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