Rich Shepard wrote: > 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. > Good advice.
Dirvish sounds like overkill for someone like me. Actually, so does backintime, and rdiff-backup! I'm a cp -ruv kind of guy! :) That being said, I think I might try out simplebackup. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
