[TriLUG] Open source backup tools

[Jason Faulkner]

On 12/4/06, Matt Frye <mattfrye at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/4/06, Jason Faulkner <jason at oldos.org> wrote:
> > However, rdiff-backup's incremental system is a little fragile for
> comfort,
> > although we've been using it for over a year with no major problems,
> other
> > than the fact that it tends to choke on files >6GB, but that's a pretty
> > specific problem for us :).
>
> Well, it's something.  I don't anticipate having any files quite that
> big, but I do need something reliable.  Define reliable?  Well,
> basically no maintenance.  This will be in a system deployed to
> customers, who won't have much access to it.  Primary use will be by
> scripts and our second line support.



By unreliable, I mean that one error in an increment can hose all your
increments, which isn't really fun.

Then again, we've been using it for a while with no software issues as far
as that happening.


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Jason Faulkner
http://oldos.org