[ale] Backup opinions requested

[Solomon Peachy]

On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 02:53:10PM -0500, Jim Lynch via Ale wrote:
> I've been real happy with rdiff-backup for all my backup needs. You'll have
> to script it yourself including removing old backup sets but it's quite
> solid.  If you need partition image backups, that's not going to be your
> selection.  If you want to make sure your files are backed up it's a great
> solution.  It's space efficient in that it only backs up changes.  If a file
> is unchanged nothing is stored.

On the downside, it's not exactly a speed demon.

 - Solomon [happy rdiff-backup user for many, many, many years now]
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Solomon Peachy			       pizza at shaftnet dot org
Coconut Creek, FL                          ^^ (email/xmpp) ^^
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