How The Backup Process Has Changed [LWN.net]

How The Backup Process Has Changed

Posted Nov 29, 2007 6:43 UTC (Thu) by gera (guest, #43819)
In reply to: How The Backup Process Has Changed by jamesh
Parent article: How The Backup Process Has Changed


You should see rdiff-backup. It uses librsync, and does act like a "real" backup system -
preserving copies of modified/deleted files.

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How The Backup Process Has Changed

Posted Nov 29, 2007 16:44 UTC (Thu) by daniel-crawford (subscriber, #4099) [Link]

In my experience, rdiff-backup is too dependent on Python (version mismatches, odd crashes),
and not robust enough. Plain rsync behaves in a much more stable way across OSes and versions,
and calling it with a script that uses --backup and --backup-dir (like tridge's 52-week shell
script) will give you all the backup window you want.