On 06/19/2014 07:59 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I have decided to also create an incremental backup on my own and was > wondering what you would recommend. I did some DDG'ing around and came > up with rdiff-backup. Would you recommend this? (There are > some more, but this one appears to have an rpm in the fedora > repositories.) Personally, I am a great fan of rsync but I also wanted a > setup that would be fast because I would like to run it every hour > (say). > > OK, I know this is OT, but it is slightly so because the system used to > backup are updated F20 systems:-) > > Any suggestions/personal experiences/suggested tweaks/references would > be greatly appreciated. > > Many thanks and best wishes, > Ranjan > I'm using rdiff-backup and it's remarkably easy to backup but when backing up HUGE files (like a VM image) it can take a long time, because the receiving side compares the two files and stores only the difference. This is good for disk space but bad for CPU usage. I'm backing up to a server in my basement that's used for little else, so this isn't an issue for me. -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
