Re: slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-27 Thread Jerry Feldman
On 06/19/2014 09:10 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 07:59:01AM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have decided to also create an incremental backup on my own and was >> wondering what you would recommend. I did some DDG'ing around and came >> up with rdiff-backup. Would you

Re: slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-19 Thread Joe Zeff
On 06/19/2014 11:16 AM, Steven Stern wrote: I'm using rdiff-backup and it's remarkably easy to backup but when backing up HUGE files (like a VM image) it can take a long time, because the receiving side compares the two files and stores only the difference. This is good for disk space but bad fo

Re: slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-19 Thread Steven Stern
On 06/19/2014 07:59 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I have decided to also create an incremental backup on my own and was > wondering what you would recommend. I did some DDG'ing around and came > up with rdiff-backup. Would you recommend this? (There are > some more, but this one appears to ha

Re: slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-19 Thread Neal Becker
Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I have decided to also create an incremental backup on my own and was > wondering what you would recommend. I did some DDG'ing around and came > up with rdiff-backup. Would you recommend this? (There are > some more, but this one appears to have an rpm in the fedora

Re: slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-19 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 07:59 -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I have decided to also create an incremental backup on my own and was > wondering what you would recommend. I did some DDG'ing around and came > up with rdiff-backup. Would you recommend this? (There are > some more, but this one ap

Re: slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-19 Thread poma
On 19.06.2014 15:10, Fred Smith wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 07:59:01AM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: Hi, I have decided to also create an incremental backup on my own and was wondering what you would recommend. I did some DDG'ing around and came up with rdiff-backup. Would you recommend this?

Re: slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-19 Thread Fred Smith
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 07:59:01AM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > Hi, > > I have decided to also create an incremental backup on my own and was > wondering what you would recommend. I did some DDG'ing around and came > up with rdiff-backup. Would you recommend this? (There are > some more, but this

slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

2014-06-19 Thread Ranjan Maitra
Hi, I have decided to also create an incremental backup on my own and was wondering what you would recommend. I did some DDG'ing around and came up with rdiff-backup. Would you recommend this? (There are some more, but this one appears to have an rpm in the fedora repositories.) Personally, I am a