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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time
Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 11:58:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811161158.01059.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1226826281.21629.19.camel@rattus.localdomain>

On Sunday 16 November 2008 11:04:41 William Kenworthy wrote:
> dirvish is in portage.
>
> tar/rsync/cp are not really backups but manual copies.  If you want true
> backup you need scripts to handle the extra functionality for things
> like versioning, archive management and the all important restore.
>
> Dirvish is excellent on all but restore.

Which raises the question:

What's the point of it then?

OTOH, it has to be better than legato. Nothing could be worse than legato.


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-16  9:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-15 19:45 [gentoo-user] Back up a server in real-time Mick
2008-11-15 20:13 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-11-15 20:23 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-15 20:29 ` Jerry McBride
2008-11-15 20:38 ` Dale
2008-11-16  0:08   ` Mick
2008-11-16  0:42     ` Dale
2008-11-16  2:58     ` Jerry McBride
2008-11-16  9:54     ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-16 11:51       ` Mick
2008-11-16 13:08         ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-16 17:12     ` Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
2008-11-16  5:16 ` jaeyoung lee
2008-11-16  9:04 ` William Kenworthy
2008-11-16  9:36   ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2008-11-16  9:58   ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2008-11-16 10:31     ` William Kenworthy
2008-11-16 10:39       ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-16 12:36         ` William Kenworthy
2008-11-16 13:15           ` Alan McKinnon
2008-11-17 16:07   ` Joerg Schilling
2008-11-30 22:56     ` Mick
2008-11-30 23:04       ` Joerg Schilling
2008-11-16 10:35 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-11-19 16:59 ` Mark Somerville
2008-11-19 17:15   ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2008-11-20  7:15     ` Dirk Heinrichs

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