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Remote backup of local server applying Rsnapshot

I have a server which uses Rsnapshot to take snapshots of folders in miscellaneous computers within a Lan. I would like to have another server located remotely that is to serve as a backup to this ...
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How do I backup via rsync to a remote machine, preserving permissions and ownership?

Drive A is 2TB in a closet at home. Drive B is 2TB in my office at work. I'd like drive A to be the one I use regularly and to have rsync mirror A to B nightly/weekly. The problem I have with this ...
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Faking rsnapshot initial backup

I'm currently using plain and flat rsync to backup my files, meaning I have no incremental backups. A few days ago I became aware of the existence of rsnapshot and after looking at the man page I ...
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Re hardlink and old rsnapshot backups [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Is there an easy way to replace duplicate files with hardlinks? I changed my naming scheme on rsnapshot from localhost to my actual host name, unfortunately this 'caused ...
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Can I do a “test run” with rsnapshot?

I occasionally make changes to my rsnapshot.conf and I'm wondering if there's any way I can do a test run that is sync-ed to a location other than the normal flow... something that's not an interval. ...
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root user denied access to .gvfs in rsnapshot?

I was running rsnapshot as root and I got the following error. Why would this happen? what is .gvfs? rsnapshot weekly slave-iv ...