What are the advantages and disadventages of git or bzr + rsync vs rdiff-backup?

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Published on 2012-08-16T18:47:56Z Indexed on 2012/09/30 21:50 UTC
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I used to use rsync to do backups, but then I switched to rdiff-backup to incremental backups.

Recently, I discovered git and bzr while working on a coding project.

So, I was thinking, I could have my backup disk be a repository in either git or bzr. Then I could rsync to the repository, and commit the changes.

Would there be any performance concerns with this? Any other issues that I'm not thinking of?

The benefit I see in using rsync is that you can restart an interrupted transfer, while rdiff-backup reverts to the last version, and then starts again. Any reason not to do it this way? Anything I'm not thinking of?

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