On 3/14/25 2:25 AM, Chris Green wrote:
Nicolas George <[email protected]> wrote:
tim wade (HE12025-03-14):
besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment backup?
Ahem. rsync is not a backup tool.
rsync can be *part of* a backup tool, for example in rsnapshot, or
manually with filesystem snapshots, but rsync alone does not allow you
to recover a file you damaged, which is part of the job description of a
backup tool.
Ah, yes, that's the one I was trying to remember when I suggested
rsyncbackup. rsnapshot is the one I used to use before I wrote my
own.
I, also use rsnapshot. With its incremental backups and hard links it
is efficient and space saving. I have about 450 GB of disk space that
is about 25% used. I take 2 backups a day and save the most recent two,
plus 7 dailies, 4 weeklies and 3 quarterlies. The total space taken up
by all of that is about 880 GB. Lots of space left on my 2 TB USB
external drive, No proprietary formats to worry about, either.
Marc
