Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Maintenance.

[Alvin Starr]

Clearly there are hundreds of better ways to back up a sparse file.

The point is that I sort of expected rdiff-backup to be as smart as tar 
and rsync in that perspective.

Its nice to be able to point a backup program at a system and have it 
work sanely and not break just because someone installed a piece of 
software that uses some wacky db library.

Over the years I have searched a number of times to find a better 
package that I can use but rdiff-backup keeps rising to the top of the heap.



On 12/05/2013 10:56 AM, Thomas Harold wrote:
> On 12/4/2013 8:16 AM, Alvin Starr wrote:
> > Has any progress been made on getting rdiff-backup supported again?
> >
> > I ran into a quirk with lack of support for spars files.
> > I have a system that has a file of 2TB for some database that only has a
> > few blocks of data in it.
>
> What sort of database file is this?  Maybe there is a better way to 
> backup the database instead of doing a raw backup of that 2TB sparse 
> file?


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