Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Incredibly slow i/o to NAS server

[Robert Nichols]

On 12/05/2016 09:13 AM, Patrik Dufresne wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 10:02 AM, Robert Nichols <address@hidden 
> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     On 12/05/2016 04:01 AM, Frank Crawford wrote:
>
>         On Sun, 2016-12-04 at 08:58 -0600, Robert Nichols wrote:
>
>             I really want to look into SafeKeep <http://safekeep.sourceforge.net/ 
> <http://safekeep.sourceforge.net/>> as an alternative, but I haven't had a chance 
> to do that.
>
>         However, SafeKeep uses rdiff-backup under the covers, it is just we 
> have spent a lot of time trying to optimise the options that we pass to 
> rdiff-backup.
>
>
>     I guess I can scratch that off my todo list, then.  I find it astounding 
> that anyone would build a new tool around a product that has been unsupported 
> for over 7 years now.
>
>
> Mostly because the alternative to rdiff-backup are worst. Even if rdiff-backup 
> has some bugs, is old and stagnant, it's more robust then many other backup 
> tool for Linux. We did our homework here and rdiff-backup was the best tool for 
> our needs.

Those are exactly the reasons that I continue to use it, despite its faults.

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