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I use rdiff-backup as my main backup solution. It's efficient and restoring from the latest backup is reasonably fast and simple. But I've found that the furthe
by wampus 12y ago
I use rdiff-backup as my main backup solution. It's efficient and restoring from the latest backup is reasonably fast and simple. But I've found that the further you go back in time, reconstructing the file from all the deltas takes so long I don't consider it useful as an archiving solution. At least that seems to be true for large and/or complex collections of files. Have you actually restored large databases from years ago in less than a few hours?
- icebraining 12y agoWe usually only restore revisions a few weeks old. That said, rdiff-backup works by taking the current mirror file and applying past diffs, so you could probably keep an older mirror (and current_mirror file from the rdiff-backup-data directory) to speed up the process.