Re: [ILUG] Backing up to disk

From: Padraig Brady (padraig.brady at domain corvil.com)
Date: Fri 13 Sep 2002 - 16:52:21 IST

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Waider wrote:
> According to Niall O Broin:
>
>>Not really an option - what about binary files ?
>>
>
> cvs admin -kb $backupfile

But that just duplicates the whole file.
If file level granularity is enough I suppose,
but if you have big files, xdelta is probably the best
(note prcs uses xdelta underneath)

I'm still not sure why you can't let the snapshot
facility of LVM do all this?

Padraig.

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