Backup systems?

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Cole Tuininga <colet at code-energy.com> writes:
>
> On 10/20/2010 01:31 PM, Tyson Sawyer wrote:
> > I've been using backup-pc with good results.  I started making my own
> > rsync scripts and decided that I had better things to do and backup-pc
> > had already done a better job than I ever would.
> 
> Seconded.  I've been using rsnapshot for backups for quite some time,
> but backuppc (once set up) has a lot more options to simplify
> restoration, etc.  I've been working on switching over to it myself.

I've been thinking of moving to rsnapshot myself (from my own
mostly-equivalent script), but now I see that, according to Debian's
statistics, it looks like rdiff-backup is about twice as popular:

    http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=rdiff-backup

    http://qa.debian.org/popcon-graph.php?packages=rsnapshot


Is there a reason for that?

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