Nicolas why are you just now replying to a post that is *10 months* old? -- Stan
On 1/23/2012 8:27 AM, Nicolas Bercher wrote: > Dan a écrit : >> I use rdiff-backup it uses the rsync alorythm but it keeps the >> increments so you can recover deleted files or the old form of file. I >> makes weekly backups and delete files in the backup files which are >> older than 3 months. > > Take care with --remove-older-than option, as the man page says: > > "Note that snapshots of deleted files are covered by this operation. > Thus if you deleted a file two weeks ago, backed up immediately after‐ > wards, and then ran rdiff-backup with --remove-older-than 10D today, no > trace of that file would remain." > > You can loose valuable old files. So, one thing I really miss in > rdiff-backup is an option to remove backups older than <a point in time> > AND newer than <another point in time>. Thus, I could reduce daily > backups to weekly, etc. But still, I can loose files. > > In a near future, I think I'll switch to venti(1) and/or vbackup(8) of > "Plan 9 port": > > http://swtch.com/plan9port/ > > Venti is "Write Once Read Many" archival storage server used to store > files hierarchy for example. On the other hand, Vbackup is used to > store efficiently entire logical volumes from *nix to a Venti server. > > But this involves to know a little about Plan 9 concepts, etc. > > Nicolas > > -- > http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man1/venti.html > http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man8/venti.html > http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man8/vbackup.html > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4f1dff0b.8080...@hardwarefreak.com
