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 have an rpm in the fedora repositories.) Personally, I am a great fan of rsync but I also wanted a setup that would be fast because I would like to run it every hour (say).
OK, I know this is OT, but it is slightly so because the system used to backup are updated F20 systems:-)
Any suggestions/personal experiences/suggested tweaks/references would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks and best wishes, Ranjan
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 for CPU usage.
I'm backing up to a server in my basement that's used for little else, so this isn't an issue for me.