Question on work-flow for big binary files

[Shridhar Daithankar]

On Thursday 18 December 2008 21:22:48 Marcus Lindblom wrote:
> Does rsnapshot offer something similar? (I don't know much about it).
> IIRC we did some fast-backups on an OpenBSD server using rsnapshot,
> which was rumored to be space efficient by using links.
>
> There still needs to be some client tool to 'commit' stuff to the
> server, which could then version stuff by snapshotting with hardlinks
> and filter out old intermediaries.

Probably. May be you could experiment with creating a snapshot with rsnapshot 
instead of commit on those large files and maintain them as external binaries? 
You could write some pre-post commit hooks to create snapshot maybe?

Of course it depends upon the delta of changes. If a simple change causes all 
the file to be changed, then all bets are off anyways.
-- 
 Shridhar