On Sat, Feb 23, 2019 at 4:51 PM Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm really not trying to be mean here, just pointing out that this is > one of those moments where throwing out a random commandline tool is > not helpful. > > Hopefully this comes across as constructive critisism. Backup tools > like CCC are essentially dd on STEROIDS. They provide a huge amount of > functionality that dd will never implement. rsync comes a bit closer, > but still lacking in a huge amount of features when compared to a > complete backup software package. The difference is so huge that you > can't even make a direct comparison, it's like comparing apples to > wild geese.... > Maybe so, but steroids are bad for you. ;-) People are free to disregard any random voluntary offers. It is acknowledged that they may not be helpful, that's for the reader to judge for themselves. I'll note that my one sentence reply was not a lot to wade through if it was off target. Personally, I like understanding what tools are doing and how they work. dd is a simple tool that is easy to understand. I rolled my own backup system based on hardlinks, long ago, before I discovered that rsync did the same thing and over the network as well. So, now I use rsync with a remembered (or bash_history remembered) command-line. I can see all the options before I press "Enter". I'm not claiming that's for everybody, but it works for me. Even Dirvish is too much chrome for me. -- Russell Senior _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
