On 12/09/2013 02:35 PM, auxsvr@gmail.com wrote:
On Monday 09 of December 2013 14:22:04 Lew Wolfgang wrote:
I've been using rdiff-backup for years! Are there any alternatives if/when it finally breaks? btrfs with snapper should have the essential features of rdiff-backup, but I'm not sure how robust or mature they are at the moment. It also has the advantage that the backups are done atomically.
Maybe it's just me, but I rather like the UNIX concept of simple and small tools that can be combined for more complicated tasks. A differential backup system built into an already rather complicated file system would make me nervous. For example, would one be able to read btrfs/snapper backups 10-years from now on a completely foreign and not yet existing file system? As an aside, once upon a time I asked Hans Reiser how to do backups of a Reiserfs file system. It doesn't have dump/restore after all. He got rather huffy and said that tar will work just fine, thank you. Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org