On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 03:22:48PM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Dec 4, 2007, at 2:01 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> Seriously though, I use rdiff-backup and cron jobs to pull backups of >> critical data and /etc using pub-key ssh authentication to make the >> connections. I have no bare-metal restoration plan, just reinstall, >> install packages, recover data and /etc and roll on. > > What's your experience with rdiff-backup been? When I tried it I found it > way too fragile to be a viable backup solution. If the backup was > interrupted for any reason, it would corrupt the history data, and all > future backup or restore attempts in that directory would cause > rdiff-backup to crash. Also, it had the usual Python error recovery > problems -- whenever an error occurred the actual error message was buried > somewhere in a gargantuan stack trace. I had a handful of problems in the beginning when I had a couple of really large files in it that were being changed. Essentially I was running out of room and it didn't handle it very gracefully. Other than that, though, I've had no problems. In fact, I had to go check my logs and see because I haven't heard a peep out of those cronjobs in a long time. I agree though... when it has problems it can be a little tricky and it does seem sort of fragile, but I've been happy with it. A
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