On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 10:41 -0700, Mark Price wrote: > What I am wondering is if rdiff-backup does all of these things in one > read/write file pass in a streaming manner, or if it simply calls to > the standard rdiff.exe (which isn't working for us)? I didn't quite > see information concerning this in the docs or wiki. We have > considered using xdelta (because it operates in a streaming manner) > but the problem with xdelta is that it stores double copies of the > deltas and kills storage space. Any help on this matter would be > great!
rdiff-backup is a great tool and hides much of the accounting you would keep using rdiff, and while it does use temporary files under the hood, this is transparent to the user. What type of file do you use rdiff-backup for? Replicating real files, or block devices? Incidentally, I wrote a blog entry the other day about streaming using rdiff, ssh, and stdio pipes that you might find useful: http://www.globallinuxsecurity.pro/blog.php -- Eric Wheeler President eWheeler, Inc. dba Global Linux Security www.GlobalLinuxSecurity.pro 503-330-4277 PO Box 14707 Portland, OR 97293 > > Thanks, > Mark Price > > _______________________________________________ > rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users > Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
