On Mon, Feb 05, 2018 at 09:08:59AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > 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.
It has index files on the backup, right? They are for storing things like reverse diffs so it can reconstruct old backups. I've never noticed it litterring the actual working file system -- just the backups. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
