Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Robustness to errors during backup

[Philippe Froidevaux]

> I have been using rdiff-backup for a few months, and have already lost
> all increments for several times. Either because there's not enough
> space, and rdiff-backup is not able to remove old increments without
> lots of empty space, either because some file system corruption
> destroyed some files from which rdiff-backup cannot recover anymore at
> all, etc... And in case of (sometimes trivial) problems, rdiff-backup
> never gives clear human readable error messages, but crashes with an
> uncatched python exception including backtrace.
>
> Although rdiff-backup has a great feature set, unfortunately I am
> planning to migrate to some other backup system. I cannot trust a
> backup system which fails so easily and takes all increments with it.

I've been using rdiff-backup for 5 years now, count my sources and 
backups size in Terabyte, and never lost any backup :)

anyway, if you find a free software which can do discs-on-discs backup 
better than rdiff-backup, tell me. I have to say I haven't looked for 
other solution since years ago.



Philippe.