backup with rsync

[Kent Borg]

I am thinking that one of these days Firewire disks will become a good
backup medium for many uses.  Here are some of their virtues:

  - fast xfer rates;
  - "instant access"--can be mounted as, well, disk volumes;
  - removable, hot pluggable, portable;
  - getting tougher every year (as tape is getting more and more delicate?); and
  - cheap (currently less than $2/GB, packaged and ready to plug in).


-kb, the Kent who also thinks incremental "rsync --link-dest" backups
to another normally readonly partition on a software raid 1 array
accomplishes a lot.