> I also would like to use it in larger scale, as it is - to the best of my > knowledge - the only free and flexible 4D-Backup-solution. However, I
If you don't mind using a free but non open source program, then there is www.crashplan.com. Although their business model is providing online space for backup storage, I believe you can still use their backup application for free to do backups between your own machines. And their software works on Windows, Linux, Mac, and Sun. > * The repository format. When recovering older files, rdiff-backup > really needs every single reverse delta, which is not only slow, but > also extremely fragile (if only one of those files is corrupted, > recovery will fail). A solution might be some additional, > larger-granularity reverse deltas that help speeding up recovery as well > as preserving integrity of "most of the timeline" even if some deltas > are corrupted. Git solves this problem with a pack.depth config option with a default value of 50. Once the max delta depth is reached, the next version of the file would be a separate copy. One new feature I would personally like to see is a push/pull between repositories that can move all or some snapshots in a network and disk space efficient manner (e.g. without having to temporarily restore all the data just to compute a different set of deltas for the 2nd repository). _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
