Re: Using rsync to disk on the system being backed up?

Hi,

rdiff-backup (rdiff is something different) actually uses the patching/delta approach of (lib)rsync also locally to store less data.

KR, Eric

On 15 February 2023 19:16:50 GMT+01:00, Robert Nichols <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 2/15/23 10:35, [email protected] wrote:
>> I've googled enough to find out that rdiff at least in some circumstances uses
>> rsync to minimize communication bandwidth.
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>> My question is this: if rdiff-backup is backing up to a disk (internal or
>> external) on the machine being backed up, does it continue to use rsync?
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>When working over a network link, rdiff-backup works in a manner _like_ rsync. It doesn't actually use the rsync program. When backing up to a local disk, it of course accesses the disk directly.
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>OK, I suppose if you really wanted to simulate networked operation when working locally you could run:
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>    rdiff-backup backup {source directory} localhost::{archive directory}
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