Re: Back up routines

[Mark Neyhart <Mark_Neyhart@legis.state.ak.us>]

John Magolske wrote:
> I've been trying to decide between dirvish & rdiff-backup. I read
> something [1] arguing in favor of dirvish, citing it's advantage of
> having images that are complete file systems. But dirvish does use
> hard links, so the issue of such a backup not being exactly 1:1 gives
> me some pause. I'm wondering if the archfs [2] you mentioned helps
> address the "complete file system" issue.
> 

I've been a satisfied dirvish user for a couple of years now.  I have
two backup servers, one on site and one off site via an ssh tunnel.