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Do you do byte-by-byte comparisons between the original and backups to makes sure nothing was copied over incorrectly? This is my biggest worry is that I back something up and the backup has bit errors and it's essentially ruined but I won't know until I try to recover it.
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It's former. It splits files into blocks (defaulting to 32KB, but that's configurable), computes hashes (two separate hashes per block) and stores them in a file in the backup config directory. These are used to detect modified blocks. It also computes a hash of an entire file and stores it in the same hash file. This is used to hedge against false negatives with modified block detection. The original version (from '…
Is the full-file hash actually faster than re-copying the whole file? Re-calculating a full-file hash will require reading the whole file anyway. Which will take around the same amount of time as re-copying the whole file, since the sequential write speeds of most HDDs and non-entry-level SSDs are similar to their sequential read speeds. The only benefit would seem to be that your SSD might last a bit longer... but h…
As a little experienced developer (still a student), I find you Work in progress page very interesting and full of useful tips and information ! Moreover it shows all the work done on this app (especially concerning the UI).
You have a lot of concerns about the UI design, do you have any books or online resources concerning application UI that you really like you'd want to share ?
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Great application ! It's functional and beautiful. As a little experienced developer (still a student), I find you Work in progress page very interesting and full of useful tips and information ! Moreover it shows all the work done on this app (especially concerning the UI). You have a lot of concerns about the UI design, do you have any books or online resources concerning application UI that you really like you'd w…
Shouldn't it be "backvp"?
Let's not go there. I wish I named it something else. It was a dorky name for a toy project, who'd knew it would get any traction. Incidentally, I do own backvp.com.
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Let's not go there. I wish I named it something else. It was a dorky name for a toy project, who'd knew it would get any traction. Incidentally, I do own backvp.com.
Does anyone know what the "v" means? Svbtle, Bvckup, Backvp... Is it supposed to be pronnounced like a "u", and just why use it in the first place? No disrespect.
In Svpply and Svbtle it simply stands for "u", which is a deferral to how Romans would've written it.
I have been thinking about my own backups for some time. Do you guys prefer rolling your own setup for full system backup or use services like CrashPlan? Do you guys trust services like S3/Glacier? When backing up your system do you bar specific files from being backed up like GPG/SSH keys, etc.?
I had read that Cyberduck can be used to backup to S3 and in-turn we can make a "rule" in S3 that after "N hrs" data in S3 should be sent to Glacier. But I don't how much price difference does it cause or whether we can directly back up to Glacier at all.
Duplicity is another thing I might want to explore. But absence of even a minimal GUI makes me a little uncomfortable.
This may sound strange, but I don't understand how I'd use this for backups. It seems like all it does is sync one folder to another, potentially in realtime. That's essentially RAID1 at the filesytem level, but RAID isn't a backup! What if I accidentally overwrite the contents of a file; how would I recover the previous version?
Anyone know of a good rsync implementation for Windows?
