On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 15:52, pinto wrote:
On Monday 01 December 2003 07:40 pm, Tom Nielsen wrote:
What's the difference between rsync and rdiff-backup? They seem to do the exact same thing.
~ after Mr. Arai's kind recommendation, I had a look :-
. . . seems rdiff-backup has added charm that it can do incremental backups, and can keep old deleted stuff just as long as you like to specify ~ 2 days ~ 3 weeks ~ or whatever you fancy
then, if you might wish . . . restore a file or directory to the state it was in, at a specific time, on a specific date.
[ the team that designed it is prolly a quality offshoot of Andrew Tridgell's Samba folks ~ the Manual of "rdiff-backup" displays olympic gymnastic ability.]
Almost right, an offshoot team from Samba is supporting a library (librsync). librsync has functionallity that would be needed by an rsync like program, but it is NOT used by rsync.
From what I have seen rdiff-backup is the end result of a single persons effort to make that library into a highly usable program. (Ben Escoto). I suspect rdiff-backup was related to Ben's doctoral thesis, but I don't know that for sure.
Greg -- Greg Freemyer