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.
