On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 15:40:51 +0100, Simon Hobson wrote:
> The think here is that you are into "backup" tools rather than the
> general purpose tool that rsync is intended to be.
Yes, that is true. Rsync serves so well as a core component to backup, I
can be blind about "something other than rsync".
I'll look at the tools you suggest. However, you've made be a little
apprehensive about storebackup. I like the lack of a need for a "restore
tool". This permits all the standard UNIX tools to be applied to
whatever I might want to do over the backup, which is often *very*
convenient.
On the other hand, I do confess that I am sometimes miffed at the waste
involved in a small change to a very large file. Rsync is smart about
moving minimal data, but it still stores an entire new copy of the file.
What's needed is a file system that can do what hard links do, but at the
file page level. I imagine that this would work using the same Copy On
Write logic used in managing memory pages after a fork().
- Andrew
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