Backups

[Michael Satterwhite]

Uno Engborg wrote:

> The advantage of rdiff-backup is that it creates a copy of the latest
> version of your file system, and then creates diffs so that you can
> create older version.
> 
> This means that you can restore tha latest version of a file just
> by plain old copying. It also means that you can store the diffs
> on CD or DVD and then remove them from yor backup machine.

Of course, the disadvantage is that the backups require the same amount
of storage as the original files. Moving gigabytes over a network can be
time consuming as well.

I'm really surprised that dar isn't part of the Fedora repositories.
Most distros - including Red Hat - do supply it. Not a big deal. I'll
download the sources and compile it.