[CentOS] Backup Redux

Fri Dec 9 21:41:01 UTC 2011
Devin Reade <gdr at gno.org>

--On Friday, December 09, 2011 02:59:08 PM -0600 Les Mikesell
<lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:

> I doubt if it can match
> the bandwidth efficiency of backuppc with rsync as the transport (not
> sure - how does the bacula agent deal with growing files, or big files
> with small changes?).

There is a relatively new block-level "delta plugin" for that
type of situation.  I've not used it yet, so I don't have any
opinions or comparisons.

I'm not sure if it's in the community edition yet (some functionality
starts out in the enterprise edition and then later gets moved
into the community edition).

Devin