[PLUG] Back in Time

[Jason Barnett]

I have used Back-in-time and it is designed to be like Apple's Time
Machine.  Once it takes the original snapshot and copies all of those files,
any later snapshots only copy files that are different and creates Hard
Links to the rest.  This means that you can look at/restore any snapshot and
it is a complete backup as of that time.  By using hard links, it saves a
lot of space and you can delete any old backups without disturbing any of
the other ones.

Thanks for the reminder, it's time for me to make another snapshot of my
system... :)



On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Jim Beckett <beckett.jim at gmail.com> wrote:

> Rich Shepard wrote:
> >    FWIW, Dirvish does this and it's very useful as a backup tool. Files
> (or
> > filesystems) can be restored for any time where the snapshot diff is
> still
> > stored. Similar to rdiff-backup, I assume.
> >
> >    Dirvish uses the hierarchy of a bank (one per machine if that's your
> > preference), and vaults for each partition/filesystem in that
> bank/machine.
> > I have one bank and 12 vaults, one for each partition on the two hard
> drives
> > except for /tmp. I've not yet had to restore a file, but the process runs
> as
> > a cron job every night, just after midnight.
> >
> >    If rdiff-backup is working for John, he should stick with it and learn
> to
> > use it fully for his needs.
> >
> Good advice.
>
> Dirvish sounds like overkill for someone like me. Actually, so does
> backintime, and rdiff-backup!
>
> I'm a cp -ruv kind of guy! :) That being said, I think I might try out
> simplebackup.
>
>
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