[ale] Today's lesson: rdiff-backup restores

[DJ-Pfulio]

On 02/19/16 19:42, Alex Carver wrote:
> The lesson is that restoring files via rdiff-backup actually works quite
> well.  I'm very happy the restore was relatively painless.

Yep.

It sounds simple, but lots of people using other tools fail to restore.
 Backups are only 10% of the tasks, IMHO.  80% is the restore. The other
10% is getting the correct info into the backups to make restore to the
place desired possible - sometimes that is identical hardware, but other
times, it isn't.

Plus, if you just need the latest backup, the a cp -a or rsync works
just as well.  Nothing fancy required for a restore for the latest.
Earlier versions can use rdiff-backup to restore easier, but any changes
are stored as gzip-diffs, so manual restores of specific files do not
require the tool either.

No funky formats. That is a rule I live by for all backup tools.

What stuff do you backup when the backups aren't "everything" to ensure
a restore?  I save about 4G off every OS backup by being selective.
Anyone else doing that?