Submit Hint Search The Forums LinksStatsPollsHeadlinesRSS
14,000 hints and counting!


Click here to return to the 'rdiff-backup vs. rsnapshot' hint
The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. This site is not responsible for what they say.
rdiff-backup vs. rsnapshot
Authored by: sapporo on Sep 28, '05 12:21:37AM
So how does rdiff-backup compare to rsnapshot?

[ Reply to This | # ]
rdiff-backup vs. rsnapshot
Authored by: sjk on Sep 28, '05 10:31:52PM

Good question. Looking briefly at both, it appears that rsnapshot is a conveniently configurable front-end for rsync (and similar to what lar3ry described in his post) while rdiff-backup does essentially the same thing with an rdiff command (which uses the same algorithm as rsync) and has more features (e.g. detailed statistics). rdiff-backup installation looks more complicated unless you use DarwinPorts.

Hopefully someone who's familiar with both can explain the key differences and any advantages or disadvantages one has over the other.

Timely and inspiring thread since I'm overdue to implement this type of incremental backup strategy for a subset of data to supplement my SuperDuper! clone backups.



[ Reply to This | # ]