--- On Wed, 15/4/09, Johannes Wiedersich <johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>
wrote:
> From: Johannes Wiedersich <johan...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>
> Subject: Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Wednesday, 15 April, 2009, 3:32 PM
> Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > On Sat,11.Apr.09, 13:47:08, James Youngman wrote:
> >
> >> (2) It would be useful to have a historic backup
> capability too (e.g.
> >> the way the filesystem looked yesterday, last
> week, last month and a
> >> year ago), at least for filesystems like /home.
> >
> > etckeeper. Admittedly, it was created for /etc (it
> hooks into dpkg and
> > records all changes), but it should be usable also for
> /home. You could
> > also use git directly if you don't care about file
> permissions.
>
> Probably overkill. It should work fine for text data,
> however, I don't
> think it would scale well for binary data. I'm not sure
> it would handle
> things like a changed exif comment gracefully. In my
> experience git
> becomes sluggish for large repositories of GBs worth of
> data and I have
> hundreds of GB of data.
>
> I use a custom rsync-script that keeps hard links of all
> unchanged
> files. Occasionally, I delete old backups and I think
> it's not
> straightforward to achieve that with git.
How about rsnapshot?
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