Quick correction: it's not true that rdiff-backup has to be installed on the remote server. Rdiff-backup works brilliantly with a dumb target for storage and that's how we use it in production.
Our servers periodically run rdiff-backup of all important data to a /backup partition on the same server. Then this /backup partition -- with the backup version history and metadata -- is rsynced to various dumb backup storage locations.
We've tried many backup solutions, and rdiff-backup is by far the fastest and most robust backup program we know.
Our servers periodically run rdiff-backup of all important data to a /backup partition on the same server. Then this /backup partition -- with the backup version history and metadata -- is rsynced to various dumb backup storage locations.
We've tried many backup solutions, and rdiff-backup is by far the fastest and most robust backup program we know.