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Cc: Jim Stapleton <stapleton.41@gmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Backing up SOHO server
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>
> Other alternatives:
> - use Bacula for a full fledged backup solution,
> - taking the image of the drives containing the OS is definitely a good idea.

not for incremental backup, otherwise ok

> - rdiff-backup - it's actually REALLY good for incremental backups . I'm using
> it with 6GB+ encrypted drives and the saving is quite good (though calculating
> the binary difference takes a while). There's a web interface to manage it
> remotely,etc. quite nice.

if it's managed by "web interface" instead of something normal like 
command line, it's not good, at least for me.