> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Yves Dorfsman > > git and friends: > capture changes when a human thinks changes were made and should be > recorded. > Fewer revisions, easy to search, every revision is meaningful. > You will miss every non-planned changes. > > rdiff-backup and friends: > capture ALL changes (if run frequently enough). > A lot of revisions, might be difficult to find what you are looking for. > Revision are per time slice, you have to correlate them to events yourself.
IMHO: rsnapshot is well suited for the latter description you've described, because it's meant to be run by cron and it rotates the snapshots according to the specified number you wish to keep. rdiff-backup is more well suited for the former description you've described, although it can certainly be used in the latter. Because rdiff-backup maintains history indefinitely (unless otherwise instructed) you probably don't want to run it frequently. It's well suited to be run manually to record meaningful changes throughout history. It only lacks the ability to store a version comment. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
