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@ 2004-07-27 08:00:00
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dirvish - Filesystem based backup system using rsync
A utility to maintain multiple backups on online storage, each backup is available as a sort of snapshot directory, where common files are shared between the different backup generations. It uses rsync to do the actual copying.

Backups can be made locally or over the network (using ssh).

This package is one of my own choosing. Things like file syncronization have been on my mind this week. I can't imagine why. --</a></b></a>[info]ydna

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rdiff-backup
(Anonymous)
2004-07-29 05:03 am UTC (link)
hi,
I looked at dirvish, when searching a backup solution for myself, but chose rdiff-packup (there is a .deb of course) instead. It also uses rsync for copying afaik and rdiff for the incremental backups. One can restore any snapshot and easily tell, for how long they should be kept (deleting an old increment means that the diffs are applied). Of course, it can use ssh to do it remotely, but rdiff-backup must be installed on both sides with not too different versions.

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Re: rdiff-backup
(Anonymous)
2004-08-08 06:20 pm UTC (link)
rdiff-backup does not use rsync. Instead it uses the librsync, and does the rest in python. I found rdiff-backup to be somewhat less than stable when dealing with 2+ million files and 300+ gigs of data.

Also, rdiff-backup does not actually preserve UID and GID on the backup "mirror" properly. Instead, it stores this information in a metadata file (which is nice if you need unixy attributes to be backed up onto a windows filesystem). The downside is that you must restore with the rdiff-backup tool, which is significantly slower than using rsync.

I am now using rsnapshot, which is pretty similar to dirvish, really.

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