Dirvish is just a wrapper on rsync. On Sat, Apr 15, 2023, 12:47 MC_Sequoia <[email protected]> wrote:
> "Dirvish makes snapshot copies of changed files. So the cron job that runs > at 00:30 each night copies changes in files in the 8 vaults (directories > or partitions). What I want to follow that daily update is to copy only > the changed files from bkup1 to bkup2." > > So, you're using a disk imaging tool to create incremental backups and the > using a remote file synchronization tool to do another incremental backup. > > Why not just use 1 tool such as rdiff-backup? It's simpler and it has more > useful backup & recover features. > > "Rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. > The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra > reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target > directory, so you can still recover files lost some time ago. > > The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental > backup. Rdiff-backup also preserves subdirectories, hard links, dev files, > permissions, uid/gid ownership (if it is running as root), modification > times, acls, eas, resource forks, etc. > > Finally, rdiff-backup can operate in a bandwidth efficient manner over a > pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use rdiff-backup and ssh to securely back a > hard drive up to a remote location, and only the differences will be > transmitted." > > https://rdiff-backup.net/ > >
