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From: | Greg Troxel |
Subject: | Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Incremental, automated, remote, secure |
Date: | Fri, 19 Jul 2013 14:18:46 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/23.4 (berkeley-unix) |
Dominic Raferd <address@hidden> writes: > On 19/07/2013 17:12, Greg Troxel wrote: >> I was worried more about corruption *on the system being backed up*, >> which would not be detected for a long time, and then you have bad bits >> and want to find old backups. > > I see. As long as the rdiff-backup repository has not experienced > corruption independently, it should be able to recover your good data > by regressing through the bad recent files back to good earlier > ones. In fact this is a critical attribute of rdiff-backup and a > reason why it is so valuable. Fair enough, but you're then left with a single point of media failure. Hence my focus on multiple tape/disk back in time. But I agree rdiff-backup does a tremendous amount of good.
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