[PLUG] Dirvish backups are using *far* too much space

[John Jason Jordan]

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:21:07 -0700
Rogan Creswick <creswick at gmail.com> dijo:

> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Eric Wilhelm
> <scratchcomputing at gmail.com> wrote:
> > If sshfs supports hardlinks (a cursory search suggests that it doesn't)
> 
> ...and that's confirmed by a quick test.
> 
> Actually, I think this is why I added the --inplace flag to dirvish.
> Somehow that went past me without a second thought, even thought I
> knew how dirvish/rsync was supposed to work when I set it up...
> 
> Looks like rdiff-backup is next on the list :)

I have been using pybackpack, a GUI front end for rdiff-backup. Works
pretty nice. 

Here is a link to the rediff-backup wiki, where there are links to GUI
front ends and other stuff.

http://wiki.rdiff-backup.org/wiki/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki