Hi Richard, Richard Chapman (Tuesday, 2008-04-29): > It appears to me that both rdiff-backup and rsnapshot would do a good > job for me. Could anyone provide their thoughts on the relative > strengths and weaknesses of the two tools. > > I have posted a similar request on the rsnapshot list - and have had > some response suggesting that rdiff-backup will need less storage - but > may be slower with a lot of changing data. Also - that recovering > specific files at specific ages may be easier with rsnapshot.
I can't say anthing to that, because I don't know rsnapshot. But... > Looking at the rdiff-backup documentation - it appears to me that > rdiff-backup stores the change data indefinitely. If this is so - and > there is no way to "delete" old data - I assume the historical change > data will grow indefinitely. Is this the case - or have I missed > something? ... there you missed the --remove-older-than option. Patrick. -- Key ID: 0x86E346D4 http://patrick-nagel.net/key.asc Fingerprint: 7745 E1BE FA8B FBAD 76AB 2BFC C981 E686 86E3 46D4
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