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Re: Dying hard drive?



On Tue, 22 Oct 2013 22:01:07 +0100
Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> wrote:

> is rsnapshot doing something different to usual: have you got a lot
> more files in your backup? is it now having to delete old snapshots,
> whereas before it hadn't hit some critical threshold? I found it to
> scale very poorly when I was using it. rdiff-backup is almost a
> drop-in replacement and doesn't suffer the same problem (lots of
> work to adjust large hard link trees)

rdiff-backup is buggy (at least, it has at least one serious reported
bug, known for years but not even acknowledged by upstream), untouched
for years and apparently abandoned:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2012/10/msg00182.html

Celejar


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