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  • Is this the only backup of those files? If it is, I'd strongly recommend doing incremental backups instead of just rsync, otherwise you may not be able to recover all the information you need. Commented Jul 14, 2013 at 22:49
  • @Paulo Almeida, why is that, if it creates a mirror? Is this not roughly the Linux equivalent of robocopy? Commented Jul 15, 2013 at 11:35
  • If a file gets corrupted, or you accidentally overwrite it, and you only notice it after the rsync runs, now both the original and the backup are corrupted. Keeping history is one of the principles of good backup practice. Of course, as in everything related to backups, there's a balance depending on how important the data are to you. But for instance, slm recommended Backuppc, which keeps history without using too much space, by using hard links. Commented Jul 15, 2013 at 12:11