Re: xfs backup system vs rsynce
Nicolas why are you just now replying to a post that is *10 months* old?
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Stan
On 1/23/2012 8:27 AM, Nicolas Bercher wrote:
> Dan a écrit :
>> I use rdiff-backup it uses the rsync alorythm but it keeps the
>> increments so you can recover deleted files or the old form of file. I
>> makes weekly backups and delete files in the backup files which are
>> older than 3 months.
>
> Take care with --remove-older-than option, as the man page says:
>
> "Note that snapshots of deleted files are covered by this operation.
> Thus if you deleted a file two weeks ago, backed up immediately after‐
> wards, and then ran rdiff-backup with --remove-older-than 10D today, no
> trace of that file would remain."
>
> You can loose valuable old files. So, one thing I really miss in
> rdiff-backup is an option to remove backups older than <a point in time>
> AND newer than <another point in time>. Thus, I could reduce daily
> backups to weekly, etc. But still, I can loose files.
>
> In a near future, I think I'll switch to venti(1) and/or vbackup(8) of
> "Plan 9 port":
>
> http://swtch.com/plan9port/
>
> Venti is "Write Once Read Many" archival storage server used to store
> files hierarchy for example. On the other hand, Vbackup is used to
> store efficiently entire logical volumes from *nix to a Venti server.
>
> But this involves to know a little about Plan 9 concepts, etc.
>
> Nicolas
>
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> http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man1/venti.html
> http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man8/venti.html
> http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man8/vbackup.html
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