[Discuss] rsnapshot vs. rdiff-backup

[Jerry Feldman]

On 12/05/2013 11:19 AM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> John Abreau wrote:
>> It occurs to me that I'm thinking of LVM snapshots, and I'm assuming
>> btrfs
>> is a filesystem that has LVM-like functionality baked in.
>
> That's correct.
>
> Btrfs snapshots, like LVM and ZFS and Advfs and XFS and AFS snapshots
> all reside on the same medium as the original. Btrfs and Linux LVM are
> the odd ducks here being the ones that lack a native mechanism for
> replicating snapshots to other media.
>
And this is the specific reason why I use rsnapshot as my backup system.

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