A question about rsync

[Mark Polhamus]

Tyson Sawyer wrote:
> On 7/23/07, Cole Tuininga <colet at code-energy.com> wrote:
>> On another note, if you're using rsync to make backups, cannot more
>> highly recommend using rsnapshot (http://www.rsnapshot.org/)
>
> Huh!  I'm using:
>
> http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
>
> And I highly recommend it.  I just glanced at rsnapshot and after a
> very quick glance it looks like the same thing.  Anyone have
> experience with or knowledge of both these packages?  I'd be
> interested to know the differences.
>
> I have been very happy with Backuppc, esp. since I had already started
> to write some scripts to do the same thing. ;-)

I've been using rdiff-backup: http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/.
Previously I was using rsync to do incremental backups, see
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/.

I'm not familiar with rsnapshot and Backuppc, but compared with rsync
backups rdiff-backup deals more efficiently with large files with small
changes between snapshots, see
http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/features.html


-- Mark Polhamus

> Cheers!
> Ty