[Discuss] rsnapshot vs. rdiff-backup

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

Ah, so you are not talking about just backing up your directories and 
files, you are talking about backing up the snapshot history, too?

I feel an infinite regress coming on.


I haven't played with btrfs in part because I feared that once I could 
make easy and cheap snapshots, I might actually start to *use* them, on 
a regular basis, and I could get lost in a mire of time travel.  What 
happens when I start using snapshots of things like git trees?  Horrors, 
violations of Nature and threats to sanity.

Life is easier when one lives in the present and resists forking the 
past.  I have never concluded that, impressive as btrfs is, it would 
improve my life.  With great power comes great responsibility, I am not 
sure btrfs would be worth it to mortal me.


-kb, the Kent who can be heard muttering something about "nested 
deduplication" as he retreats, shaking his head, looking tired.