Hi, I'm new to this list, so if this question has already been answered please bare with me and point me to the relevant discussion.
I was wondering, if rdiff-backup stores the snapshots differentially or incrementally Say, I create a snapshot every day. If I want to restore a file from 15 days ago, do I need all 15 snapshots to restore the state (incremental) or only the current up-to-date state + 1 rdiff (differential)? If rdiff-backup only allows incremental backups, I see the following problems: 1.) If a file changes a little every day (big mysql db), then restoring the file (from say 100 days ago) will probably take a lot of processing time, space and memory. 2.) If one of the rdiffs goes corrupt (e.g. via a bad sector), all my older backups are broken. 3.) I can't throw away rdiffs, say I want to create daily snapshots, keep 30 of them, then keep monthly snapshots, and so on (basically what tools like rsnaphost provide). I couldn't find any obvious answer in the documentation, so I'd be very thankful if you could help me with this questions. Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth? _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
