[Info-vax] Problems restoring image-backup

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-06-29 23:06:44 +0000, lawrencedo99 at gmail.com said:

> On Thursday, June 30, 2016 at 2:46:21 AM UTC+12, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
>> rsync remotely synchronizes the specified directories.   If that's what
>> you need for your backups, bully for you.   But rsync not a backup
>> tool, short of a very large pile of custom code, and a whole lot of
>> wasted storage on the target volumes if there's any depth of backups to
>> be kept.

> I already explained how rsync is very much a backup tool, and provides 
> dedupe options for this very purpose, to avoid wasting storage.

Ayup.   One that's not comparable to what I'd want, nor any shop I'm 
familiar with for that matter.   Good for making a snapshot, good for a 
local box that doesn't have better tools — and assuming somebody wants 
to script the processing.   That --backup stuff might help a few folks, 
certainly.   From what I can tell of it, rsync is not good at system 
recovery.   Not without more than a little help.

If you think rsync is particularly comparable to Time Machine or other 
such backup tools, bully for you.   But I'd have to disagree.






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