On Thursday 26 April 2007 06:43, G.T.Smith wrote: .................snip a lot.................... > > Neither of the solutions I posted earlier in this thread are dependent > > on timestamps. > > > > iirc: Especially for online backups rdiff-backup mentioned before > > ignores timestamps altogether. It calculates the MD5 for every file > > to see if any changes have been introduced. If they have it segments > > the file and drills down to find the smallest unit of change and only > > sends that data across the LAN/WAN. > > > > Greg > > Thanks. I have taken a look at your suggestions and that of Joachim, I > am impressed with the description of both. XFS is not an option as it > looks like I would have to do a lot of partition juggling to make a move. > > Unfortunately, as there are problems with my tape unit I am for the > moment constrained by the need to backup to DVD/CD, and it is not > immediately clear to me how either dirvish or rdiff-backup would > effectively work in this situation, but I will be looking into this > further. (Actually, the more I have explored the DVD/CD element of the > problem, more I understand why no-one has produced a usable DVD/CD > backup solution). I have already decided that for the code I am working > on I will be using subversions backup procedures to dump the > repositries, and I will be dumping MySQL databases as well (probably > will eventually run queries that only dump new records or modified > records), which largely leaves the backup of Documents, Spreadsheets, > etc etc to something else (rdiff-backup seems to be the front runner > here).. e-Mail structures are going to be a particular headache. > If you need to back up to DVD/CD what about Mondo/Mindi I used to use it exclusively for several years a while ago. Now I use Kdar but I back up to a spare hard drive.
Just a thought. Bob S. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
