On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 03:19:44PM -0600, A Burgie wrote: > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:33, Andrew McNabb <[email protected]> wrote: > > By the way, if anyone ever runs into a good alternative to Unison, > > please let me know. I use Unison on a daily basis, but I have some > > serious problems with it: > > I've been considering dabbling with rdiff-backup > (http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/) though it also looks to be fairly > low in current development; it does have a long history so maybe it's > robust enough it just doesn't need more, but does anybody have any > recommendations along these lines? A plus here is that it keeps a > full backup all of the time but stores differences so you can rollback > to an arbitrary point in time.
Rsync-based tools are great for doing this sort of backup. I've heard of rdiff-backup, and I know that there are several alternatives. Another possibility is to write your own little script that uses rsync directly, which was what I did. However, rsync is a one-directional copier, and it isn't really an alternative to Unison. -- Andrew McNabb http://www.mcnabbs.org/andrew/ PGP Fingerprint: 8A17 B57C 6879 1863 DE55 8012 AB4D 6098 8826 6868 -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
