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Complementary backup tool for big archives that change everyday just a little bit

I would like to know what is the complementary tool ModularIT is going to add to the backup system to be able to make backups of big archives that change everyday but just a little bit.

The one ModularIT has right now, Dirvish, its great for 95% of the cases but, for example, for big databases like zope/plone one, it makes copies of the whole DDBB every day even if only few KB have changed.

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RE: Complementary backup tool for big archives that change everyday just a little bit - Added by kuko over 3 years ago

For that purpose, or even to replace dirvish, we are considering rdiff-backup (http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/index.html)
This tool create backups as incremental binary diff, so it works even for big files with small changes. The reason we didn't include it in the backup service is that it was a command line tool without an easy interface to recover files from previuos backups.

Recently we have discovered a promising interface that uses a FUSE plugin (http://code.google.com/p/archfs/) so recovery should be pretty simple even for non-technical users

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