[rdiff-backup-users] Re:rdiff-backup for hot and cold backups of home directories, (Louis-Dominique Dubeau)

2008-06-01 Thread Richard Chapman
Hi Louis Have you considered using Logical Volume Management Snapshot volumes to make you hot backups (arguably) totally reliable? The pre-requisites are that you are backing up data on an LVM volume using a suitable file-system, and that there is a little unallocated space in you LVM

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup versus rsnapshot

2008-04-29 Thread Richard Chapman
Thanks Chris, Clement and Mike I am posting this to both rdiff-backup group and the rsnapshot group so experts from each group can comment. That seems to be a really good summary of the differences. I am now left with a tough choice - which really results from fundamental problems with

[rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup versus rsnapshot

2008-04-28 Thread Richard Chapman
Hi I am planning a holistic backup system for a mixed windows/linux network. The system should provide for both disaster recovery and accidental deletion protection. It appears to me that both rdiff-backup and rsnapshot would do a good job for me. Could anyone provide their thoughts on the