On Thu, 2015-09-10 at 14:20 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > On 09/10/2015 02:14 PM, Rick Stevens wrote: > > Sparse file support on the backup medium is also very useful if the > > backup program supports it. If the utility has compression support, > > that's also a benefit to conserve space on the backup medium. > > My backup program uses rsync for the heavy lifting. As I back up to > a flash drive, I ended up reformatting it to ext4 to get symlinks. I > presume that anybody using an external hard drive would have it > formatted appropriately. Didn't know about BackInTime but it appears to be similar to rsnapshot except for having a GUI. OTOH I'm guessing rsnapshot is faster when the backup set is on a server rather than a local drive since it's more efficient when pulling over rsync rather than pushing to NFS or Samba. poc -- 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
