Re: xfs backup system vs rsynce

2012-01-24 Thread Jon Dowland
On 23/01/12 14:27, Nicolas Bercher wrote: 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-o

Re: xfs backup system vs rsynce

2012-01-23 Thread Stan Hoeppner
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 week

Re: xfs backup system vs rsynce

2012-01-23 Thread Nicolas Bercher
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

Re: xfs backup system vs rsynce

2011-05-30 Thread Dan
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 7:28 PM, prad wrote: > xfsdump and xfsrestore seem to be a good combo and i recall using dump > and restore on freebsd. > > the past year we've been using rsync which is very convenient. > > do people have any thoughts regarding these as far as creating backups? > > my feel

Re: xfs backup system vs rsynce

2011-05-30 Thread William Hopkins
On 05/30/11 at 04:28pm, prad wrote: > xfsdump and xfsrestore seem to be a good combo and i recall using dump > and restore on freebsd. > > the past year we've been using rsync which is very convenient. > > do people have any thoughts regarding these as far as creating backups? > > my feelings ar

xfs backup system vs rsynce

2011-05-30 Thread prad
xfsdump and xfsrestore seem to be a good combo and i recall using dump and restore on freebsd. the past year we've been using rsync which is very convenient. do people have any thoughts regarding these as far as creating backups? my feelings are slanted towards using xfs tools since i'm using xf