[Discuss] rsnapshot vs. rdiff-backup

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 12/03/2013 09:54 AM, Richard Pieri wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
>> scheduling in cron. At work we had a WD MyBook which is a very, very
>> slow device. Our first backup took days. (The WD was connected to the
>> same switch as our NAS). I also had to schedule the rsnapshot backups
>> along with an offsite backup to our New York Office. The one thing I
>
> That's the tedious aspect of it. rsnapshot isn't designed for
> sequential operations. Scheduling that can be tedious.
>
>
>> is current. Also, rsnapshot can be used for Windows systems. If rsync is
>> run on a Unix/Linux file system, such as Cygwin, you do get the
>> advantage of hard links.
>
> Well... sort of. My experience replicating hard and sybolic links
> between NTFS and POSIX file systems has been inconsistent. That's not
> something that I would care to rely upon for a backup system. Cygwin
> doesn't handle NTFS permissions all that well to begin with, and
> rsnapshot does nothing to preserve ACLs which limits its utility as a
> backup system in a mixed or complex environment.
>
The real issue here is that the windows file system attributes and
Unix/Linux file system permissions are simply different things. While
rsnapshot can be used for Windows, I would not recommend it because of
the attribute/permissions differences.

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