What is the difference between rsnapshot and rdiffbackup?
Which is better for backing up a new snapshot of my laptop (over the Internet from some remote location) to my server (which already has the previous backup) ?
As far as I can tell, they both store (on the backup server) the latest backup and many previous versions of backed-up files (in the form of compressed reverse-incremental deltas).
They both use rsync to make backups over the internet faster.
Best Answer
Quoting from http://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2008/02/backup-on-linux-rsnapshot-vs-rdiff/ :
also:
The page lists some other differences also.