[Discuss] rsnapshot vs. rdiff-backup

[Derek Atkins]

Kent Borg <kentborg at borg.org> writes:

> A big consideration when looking at backups is to walk through the
> restore scenario: how long will it take? Will that be good enough?
>
> I have used a home-brew backup scheme ping-ponged between two
> different removable drives (one always disconnected, usually both are
> disconnected and at least one off-site) and I used the hard link
> option of rsync to store complete trees in an efficient way.
>
> The cool thing about this is that the restore time to access any given
> file is to plug in the backup and mount the partition--likely
> readonly. (Add more time or elaboration for whole disk or whole system
> restoration.)
>
> But the point is to ask how the backup will be used, not just that the
> data is theoretically in there someplace and could be pulled out.

How would you use these systems to do a full system restore?

> -kb

-derek

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