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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Activity
From: |
Wojciech Stryjewski |
Subject: |
Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Activity |
Date: |
Mon, 1 Aug 2011 14:18:40 -0500 |
> I also would like to use it in larger scale, as it is - to the best of my
> knowledge - the only free and flexible 4D-Backup-solution. However, I
If you don't mind using a free but non open source program, then there
is www.crashplan.com. Although their business model is providing
online space for backup storage, I believe you can still use their
backup application for free to do backups between your own machines.
And their software works on Windows, Linux, Mac, and Sun.
> * The repository format. When recovering older files, rdiff-backup
> really needs every single reverse delta, which is not only slow, but
> also extremely fragile (if only one of those files is corrupted,
> recovery will fail). A solution might be some additional,
> larger-granularity reverse deltas that help speeding up recovery as well
> as preserving integrity of "most of the timeline" even if some deltas
> are corrupted.
Git solves this problem with a pack.depth config option with a default
value of 50. Once the max delta depth is reached, the next version of
the file would be a separate copy.
One new feature I would personally like to see is a push/pull between
repositories that can move all or some snapshots in a network and disk
space efficient manner (e.g. without having to temporarily restore all
the data just to compute a different set of deltas for the 2nd
repository).
- [rdiff-backup-users] Activity, Felix Rios, 2011/08/01
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Activity, mail, 2011/08/01
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Activity, D. Kriesel, 2011/08/01
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Activity, address@hidden, 2011/08/01
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Activity, D. Kriesel, 2011/08/01
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Activity, Robert Nichols, 2011/08/01
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Activity,
Wojciech Stryjewski <=
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Activity, D. Kriesel, 2011/08/01
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Activity, D. Kriesel, 2011/08/01
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Activity, Wojciech Stryjewski, 2011/08/01
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Activity, Joe Steele, 2011/08/01
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Activity, Alexander Samad, 2011/08/02
- Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Activity, Piotr Karbowski, 2011/08/05
Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Activity, covici, 2011/08/01