On Mon, 1 Feb 2010, Jim Beckett wrote: > The application gives the user a simple way to revert changes to their > files based on a point in time (Snapshot). It seems like it is useful as a > document/file revision tool more than anything else, which explains their > default choices for what to backup. (I had a real DUH! moment when I came > to that conclusion, and looked at the title of the application again...)
FWIW, Dirvish does this and it's very useful as a backup tool. Files (or filesystems) can be restored for any time where the snapshot diff is still stored. Similar to rdiff-backup, I assume. Dirvish uses the hierarchy of a bank (one per machine if that's your preference), and vaults for each partition/filesystem in that bank/machine. I have one bank and 12 vaults, one for each partition on the two hard drives except for /tmp. I've not yet had to restore a file, but the process runs as a cron job every night, just after midnight. If rdiff-backup is working for John, he should stick with it and learn to use it fully for his needs. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
