[sllug-members]: easy backups

[Scott Patten]

Bart Whiteley wrote:
> 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/ ? 
>
>   
Simplicity I guess.  This page is quite interesting but I would only 
choose it for the geek factor.  I'll stick with rdiff-backup.  I get it 
but I don't want to  remember that much about my backups.  Maybe I'm not 
geeky enough. ;-)