Re:Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync
by znull on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @05:00PM
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I haven't pushed it very hard. I'm only using it for personal stuff.
That said, it's pretty good at DWIM for a command-line tool. It works as advertised and doesn't require any fiddling once you have it set up.
cons: command line syntax is verbose. Enough so that there's a wrapper for it (http://duply.net/) which I also recommend. Access to backups isn't as straightforward as with forest-of-hardlinks approaches.
I'd be interested to hear how it holds up to production use.
That said, it's pretty good at DWIM for a command-line tool. It works as advertised and doesn't require any fiddling once you have it set up.
cons: command line syntax is verbose. Enough so that there's a wrapper for it (http://duply.net/) which I also recommend. Access to backups isn't as straightforward as with forest-of-hardlinks approaches.
I'd be interested to hear how it holds up to production use.