Jerome BENOIT wrote: > songbird wrote: ... >> ultimately i really need a way to do backups that will >> deduplicate > > I do not see what you mean.
my old backups are not incremental so they will contain a lot of files that would be identical copies to other backups. >> 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. sounds ok to me, but i may also decide for some things to not compress at all. very large archives of materials already compressed would be one i'd like to skip messing with at all. songbird
