[TriLUG] backup methodology

Tanner Lovelace lovelace at wayfarer.org
Fri Feb 21 09:14:26 EST 2003


On Thu, 2003-02-20 at 17:01, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> Jeremy Portzer <jeremyp at pobox.com> writes:
> > If you're backing up to another hard drive, either locally or across the
> > network:
> >
> > D) Don't use tar, use rsync snapshots.
> >
> > http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
> >
> > Several options for client software there.  I'm trying out the "rsback"
> > script with is pretty cool.
> 
> A seemingly similar option is rdiff-backup (look on freshmeat), which
> seems to purport to give you rsync-like incremental backups, which
> would be the best of both worlds.

The one fatal flaw with rdiff-backup in relation to the rsync snapshot
style backups is that you must have the rdiff tool to extract the
backup.  With the rsync snapshots, it's just an image on disk.  No
extra tools are needed to get to it.

Cheers,
Tanner
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