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[Discuss] On-site backups revisited - rsnapshot vs. CrashPlan



Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> writes:

[snip]
> Also, rsnapshot has a decent logging mechanism. Unfortunately, rsnapshot
> assumes a Unix/Linux file system (hence hard links), so you really could
> not use it to back up a Windows file system in the same way.

I don't understand this last statement.  While I understand that you
couldn't backup *to* a windows file system, I don't understand why you
cannot backup a windows file system?

-derek

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