How to let Mercurial treat local repositories as ordinary files

[Dave S]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 5:57 PM, Markus <mp.lists at free.fr> wrote:


>  > There are innumerable better incremental backup solutions available.
>  >
> Ok -- and these better incremental backup solutions were?  {You may
> answer by pm, if you fear, this runs off topic of this list.}
>

I can recommend Beyond Compare from
<http://www.scootersoftware.com/moreinfo.php>

It's not free, although you get full features for a 30-day trial.

BC3 is a source compare tool that has grown up very well.  It works
very well on Windows for incremental backups; it runs on Linux, but I
haven't tried any incremental backup techniques with it there.  It's
normally set up to be run by a user for his or her own files, but with
the proper account I imagine you could take care of multiple users.

Of course, there are true backup solutions that support incremental
backup.  I believe Amanda is a Linux tool that can do that.  And at
one time, a lot of people were using scripts based on rsynch.

HTH.

/dps