On Wed, 2019-12-25 at 13:29 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > On 25Dec2019 00:22, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 2019-12-25 at 08:51 +1100, Cameron Simpson wrote: > > > Histbackup is here: > > > > > > https://bitbucket.org/cameron_simpson/css/src/tip/bin/histbackup > > > > > > There are plenty of other similar tools. > > > > I use rsnapshot, which seems quite similar. Any thoughts on pros/cons > > versus histbackup? > > I wrote histbackup, so it does what I want with some handy (to me) > features (symlink-if-unchanged, "named" symlink to latest backup and > specific backups, second pass if we hit the hardlink limit, etc). > > I haven't an opinion about rsnapshot, as I've not had cause to use it. > > Is there anything you wish rsnapshot did? Not really. The documentation could be a little clearer in some respects but it makes sense when you understand the implicit assumption that you're pulling files from the backup client to the target rather than the other way round. This makes a huge difference when using NFS (by about 10 to 1 in completion times in my case) but once over that hurdle I just let it run. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
