On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 15:39:45 -0800
Jason Barnett <[email protected]> dijo:

>I have used Back-in-time and it is designed to be like Apple's Time
>Machine.  Once it takes the original snapshot and copies all of those
>files, any later snapshots only copy files that are different and
>creates Hard Links to the rest.  This means that you can look
>at/restore any snapshot and it is a complete backup as of that time.
>By using hard links, it saves a lot of space and you can delete any
>old backups without disturbing any of the other ones.

That's what rdiff-backup does too, either from the command line or via
the Pybackpack GUI. 

There must be some difference, else why create Back in Time?
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