Re: [rdiff-backup-users] incremental or differential backup

[Michael Biebl]

2009/1/16 Dominic <address@hidden>:
> Michael Biebl wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 2.) If one of the rdiffs goes corrupt (e.g. via a bad sector), all my
>>>> older backups are broken.
>>>
>>> mmm, true I think, you should use raid or (better IMHO) a secondary
>>> backup
>>> (use rsync).
>>>
>>
>> Is there a reason why you recommend rsync for that? If I understood
>> the project description correctly, rdiff-backup should work just fine
>> for remote backups.
>
> The reason I use rsync for the secondary backup is that I just want a mirror
> of the data on the first (rdiff-backup) backup machine - including (and
> especially) all the rdiff-backup archives. Doing an rdiff-backup of an
> rdiff-backup archive would seem too much of a good thing. Or maybe I just
> can't get my head around it.

Ah, I didn't mean it that way
What I had in mind was something like:

rdiff-backup /foo /backup/
rdiff-backup /foo remote-server::/backup/

(both triggered via cron, e.g.)

Cheers,
Michael
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