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On Sunday 16 November 2008 12:31:16 William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> * app-backup/dirvish |
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> Latest version available: 1.2.1 |
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> Latest version installed: 1.2.1 |
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> Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest] |
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> Homepage: http://www.dirvish.org/ |
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> Description: Dirvish is a fast, disk based, rotating network |
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> backup system. |
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> License: OSL-2.0 |
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> Its worth a read on how its done - using smarts rather than brute force! |
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So the basic premise is that backups are done frequently and need to be |
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efficient, whereas restores are only done in the event of a mistake. Less |
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efficient restores is then a fair trade? |
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I see people get this wrong all the time at work. They assume that backups are |
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some sort of rapid shared storage system. Which of course it isn't. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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