Hi,
On 22/03/2025 13:50, songbird wrote:
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
Hi,
backup2l is simple and has been reliable for me for years.
Cheers,
Jerome
interesting, at first glance it might help me out, but
i don't know for sure. i'm a bit worried though that the
debian package doesn't look like it is actively maintained.
It does not look like either that it needs a major fix.
Note that the upstream material is as fresh as the package.
I see this as a stability factor: this is what you ask for
a backup tool.
i have old backups in tar format. will backup2l allow
those to be used as a source in such a way that each one
is not duplicated without having to unpack them first?
No.
But somehow the reverse is true:
you can access the material produced by backup2l without it.
If backup2l is no more maintained or get broken for any reason
you can still get the saved material by hand (I will not say that
it would be easy). Anyway, backup2l is written in an easy to
read bash.
ages ago i used bup and it was ok, but i really did not
like the presentation for going back and finding things.
this was a long time ago though and now perhaps it isn't
so bad. doesn't matter now as i have no old bup anyplace.
ultimately i really need a way to do backups that will
deduplicate
I do not see what you mean.
and must be 100% bulletproof and stable.
backup2l is stable (it uses stable tools (as tar) and it is written in an
easy-to-read bash).
For the bulletproof part, the choice of the compressor might be crucial:
backup2l allows to
choose your favorite one.
songbird
Cheers,
Jerome
