On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 09:15:33AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 05:32:36PM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > > Dear list, > > > > For years I'd used a couple of rsync scripts for backup, > > usually just full snapshots. > > > > I knew there is an option using hardlinks that behaves like > > the Mac Time Machine app, giving cheap incremental backups. > > > > https://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/rsync_time_machine.html > > (....) > > probably someone has done it better... > > > > There's rdiff-backup, which uses an efficient algorithm to identify what > has changed and transmit the diffs over the network. It also keeps a > history of old backups on the backup drive, so you can restore as of a > previous date.
I used rdiff-backup years ago. ISTR it litters the directory tree with index files. cheers, > And the files themselves are readable on the backup drive, as ng as you > don't have them compressed or encrypted. > > -- hendrik > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
