Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff-backup versus rsnapshot

[Patrick Nagel]

Hi Richard,

Richard Chapman (Tuesday, 2008-04-29):
> It appears to me that both rdiff-backup and rsnapshot would do a good
> job for me. Could anyone provide their thoughts on the relative
> strengths and weaknesses of the two tools.
>
> I have posted a similar request on the rsnapshot list - and have had
> some response suggesting that rdiff-backup will need less storage - but
> may be slower with a lot of changing data. Also - that recovering
> specific files at specific ages may be easier with rsnapshot.

I can't say anthing to that, because I don't know rsnapshot. But...

> Looking at the rdiff-backup documentation - it appears to me that
> rdiff-backup stores the change data indefinitely. If this is so - and
> there is no way to "delete" old data - I assume the historical change
> data will grow indefinitely. Is this the case - or have I missed
> something?

... there you missed the --remove-older-than option.

Patrick.

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