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Re: User-oriented backup tools

From Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: User-oriented backup tools
Date 2017-02-16 22:50 +0100
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On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 11:43:27AM +0100, Francesco Porro wrote:
> On 16/02/2017 03:39, Martin McCormick wrote:
> > 	I use rsnapshot. 
> 
> Very nice one! This has what I was looking for, indeed there's a link in
> the main page to the article that I posted before. I'll give it a try,
> for sure!

I used to use rsnapshot, which is not much of a conceptual step up from
rsync, and thus is an easy tool to use, but the architectural decision to
keep hard link trees for each increment caused me a lot of problems for
large mailboxes (lots and lots of small files; high ratio of filesystem
metadata to actual data). Deleting old increments was very computationally
expensive.

So instead I use rdiff-backup. It's a very similar tool but it uses a more
clever scheme for storing increments. The most recent increment is available
as simple files, and most restores are of the last backup. The scheme it uses
for increments is quite simple, well documented and third party tools exist
to manipulate it, which gives me confidence.

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Jonathan Dowland
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User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-15 23:40 +0100
  Re: User-oriented backup tools Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-02-15 23:50 +0100
    Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 11:50 +0100
      Re: User-oriented backup tools Glenn English <ghe2001@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 18:30 +0100
        Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 19:10 +0100
          Re: User-oriented backup tools Glenn English <ghe2001@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 21:30 +0100
            Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-17 00:50 +0100
  Re: User-oriented backup tools Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2017-02-16 01:10 +0100
    Re: User-oriented backup tools "Martin McCormick" <martin.m@suddenlink.net> - 2017-02-16 03:50 +0100
      Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 11:50 +0100
        Re: User-oriented backup tools Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-02-16 22:50 +0100
  Re: User-oriented backup tools solitone <solitone@mail.com> - 2017-02-16 06:50 +0100
    Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 11:50 +0100
  Re: User-oriented backup tools <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-16 09:20 +0100
    Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 11:50 +0100
      Re: User-oriented backup tools <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-16 12:10 +0100
        Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 14:30 +0100
          Re: User-oriented backup tools <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-16 15:00 +0100
  Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 12:00 +0100
  Re: User-oriented backup tools Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2017-02-16 12:20 +0100
    Re: User-oriented backup tools Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-02-16 12:30 +0100
      Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 14:30 +0100
        Re: User-oriented backup tools Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-02-16 15:00 +0100
          Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 17:40 +0100
            Re: User-oriented backup tools Glenn Holmer <cenbe@kolabnow.com> - 2017-02-16 17:40 +0100
              Re: User-oriented backup tools Chen Wei <weichen302@icloud.com> - 2017-02-17 09:40 +0100
    Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 14:50 +0100
  Re: User-oriented backup tools Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 13:20 +0100
    Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 14:40 +0100
      Re: User-oriented backup tools Boyan Penkov <boyan.penkov@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 14:50 +0100
        Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 15:10 +0100
          Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 17:30 +0100
            Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 19:00 +0100
          Re: User-oriented backup tools Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> - 2017-02-16 17:40 +0100
            Re: User-oriented backup tools Francesco Porro <frapox@gmail.com> - 2017-02-16 19:10 +0100

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