Dominic Raferd <domi...@timedicer.co.uk> writes: > On 19/07/2013 17:12, Greg Troxel wrote: >> I was worried more about corruption *on the system being backed up*, >> which would not be detected for a long time, and then you have bad bits >> and want to find old backups. > > I see. As long as the rdiff-backup repository has not experienced > corruption independently, it should be able to recover your good data > by regressing through the bad recent files back to good earlier > ones. In fact this is a critical attribute of rdiff-backup and a > reason why it is so valuable.
Fair enough, but you're then left with a single point of media failure. Hence my focus on multiple tape/disk back in time. But I agree rdiff-backup does a tremendous amount of good. _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
