Re: Homebuilt NAS Advice
On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 17:21:44 +0100
Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 06, 2020 at 12:03:56PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> >Ah, okay. So IIUC, each time you backup you do a full backup, and you then
> >convert the previous backups into the reverse of the more common
> >incremental / differential backups.
>
> It's an implementation detail: rdiff-backup does it too, I suspect it's
> commonly done. From what I recall many version control systems do
> something similar.
Thanks. But what's the advantage? Isn't it more work on each backup (of
which there are typically many), in exchange for less work on restores
(which are typically quite rare)? What am I missing?
Celejar
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