Re: dirvish vs rdiff-backup (was Re: Changing the default simlink to sh [was: Password file with over 3000 users.])

[Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr>]

Dan MacNeil wrote:
> Thomas Goirand wrote:
> [snip]
> 
>> We are going to set it [snipped] up on all of our location for doing 
>> backups with dirvish.
> 
> We're using rdiff-backup through backup-ninja and are only 90% happy
> with it. Sarge/Etch rdiff-backup archives aren't comparable. Syntax for
> recovering from backups older than a day requires a trip the man page.
> 
> How does dirvish compare to rdiff-backup ?

What dirvish does is that it does a first backup with rsync, then it
does it's incremental backups using hardlink. So it's quite strait
forward to use, and I don't think there are incomparability problems
with anything.

Thomas