cartridge-backup VS rdiff-backup

Compare cartridge-backup vs rdiff-backup and see what are their differences.

cartridge-backup

Script to make incremental backups onto multiple, smaller drives from one larger source (by Jeroen-45)

rdiff-backup

Reverse differential backup tool, over a network or locally. [Moved to: https://github.com/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup] (by sol1)
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cartridge-backup rdiff-backup
1 1
2 478
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10.0 7.7
over 1 year ago about 3 years ago
Python Python
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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cartridge-backup

Posts with mentions or reviews of cartridge-backup. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-13.
  • Backing up a 30TB dataset on to multiple 8TB disks?
    3 projects | /r/DataHoarder | 13 Sep 2022
    I had a problem similar to this and ended up writing my own python script to solve it since I also couldn't find anything that did what I wanted (incremental backups from one large drive onto multiple small ones, one backup disk connected at a time). Maybe it can be of some help to you too: https://github.com/Jeroen-45/cartridge-backup

rdiff-backup

Posts with mentions or reviews of rdiff-backup. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-01-30.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cartridge-backup and rdiff-backup you can also consider the following projects:

fsbackup - Multi-volume backup for large filesystems

rsync-time-backup - Time Machine style backup with rsync.

localbackup - 🦄 Make local backups easily and without the hassle.

cronicle - Use cron to rotate files and keep time-spaced copies using symlinks.