The two sides of reflink() [LWN.net]

The two sides of reflink()

Posted May 6, 2009 16:59 UTC (Wed) by MarkWilliamson (guest, #30166)
In reply to: The two sides of reflink() by cdarroch
Parent article: The two sides of reflink()

Indeed.

rdiff-backup (http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/non-gnu/rdiff-backup/) gives
somewhat similar snapshotting convenience but you have to interact with it through a
command line app. Also, it does use up extra space (although if you're backing up to
another machine / another drive for redundancy then that's just fine!).

archfs (http://code.google.com/p/archfs/) provides a Fuse interface to browse rdiff-backup
repositories. Last time I tried it it wasn't really suitable for large repositories but this may
have been fixed since then. rdiff-backup's page on related info has some other solutions:
http://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/non-gnu/rdiff-backu...

.snapshot is a very nice user interface to have to old revisions.

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The two sides of reflink()

Posted May 9, 2009 5:07 UTC (Sat) by TRS-80 (subscriber, #1804) [Link]

rdiffWeb is a nice web interface to rdiff-backup. At work we're using rdiff-backup for weekly snapshots to complement our nightly amanda tape, a 1TB drive lasted us a year.

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