[Discuss] rsnapshot vs. rdiff-backup

Richard Pieri richard.pieri at gmail.com
Fri Dec 6 13:55:26 EST 2013


Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I'm not sure what it would use cp(1) for when backup up remotely. I

It's not for remotely. Its for locally including over NFS. If I'm 
remembering things properly at this point, "cp --link source target" 
followed by an rsync update is much faster than "rsync --link-dest prev 
source target".

-- 
Rich P.



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