30 Oct
2008
30 Oct
'08
9:43 p.m.
Scott Silva wrote:
Rsync will use more memory on large filesystems, but it is usually lighter in CPU, network, and IO time. But tar gives you multiple backups. To achieve that with rsync you need the rbackup script or rsnapshot.
Also check snapback2 (similar to tools you mentioned above)
And brackup looks quite interesting for backing up maildir... (same chap who wrote memcached)
Ed W