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Re: dirvish vs rdiff-backup (was Re: Changing the default simlink to sh [was: Password file with over 3000 users.])

From: Thomas Goirand <thomas(at)goirand.fr>
Date: Fri Sep 28 2007 - 23:40:21 EDT

Dan MacNeil wrote:
> Thomas Goirand wrote:
> [snip]
>

>> We are going to set it [snipped] up on all of our location for doing 
>> backups with dirvish.

>
> We're using rdiff-backup through backup-ninja and are only 90% happy
> with it. Sarge/Etch rdiff-backup archives aren't comparable. Syntax for
> recovering from backups older than a day requires a trip the man page.
>
> How does dirvish compare to rdiff-backup ?

What dirvish does is that it does a first backup with rsync, then it does it's incremental backups using hardlink. So it's quite strait forward to use, and I don't think there are incomparability problems with anything.

Thomas

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