[sllug-members]: easy backups

[Bart Whiteley]

On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 17:50 -0600, Scott Patten wrote:
> I'd like to add a second vote for rdiff-backup.  It combines the 
> advantages of diff with those of rsync.  It will very efficiently
> create 
> a copy of a directory and also keep compressed backups of the changes 
> that occurred  since the last backup.  When you want to restore a
> file, 
> you just copy it.  When you want to restore an older copy then you
> issue 
> an rdiff-backup command that decompresses and recombines the files to 
> give you the version that you are after. 

What are the advantages of rdiff-backup over 
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ ?