On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Jerry Feldman <g...@blu.org> wrote: > Another backup system is rsnapshot. http://rsnapshot.org/ > > I used to do a simple rsync backup, but now I use this both at home and > at work from a NAS device. The nice thing about this is that it > effectively does incrementals by using the --link-dest rsync flag, so > that the files in each backup set are hard linked, so you only get those > files that have changed or have been added since the last backup. >
Because I'm too lazy to RTFM myself, does rsnapshot take care of clearing out older data to make room for new, or does that need to be handled separately? I believe backkuppc takes care of that, if my memory serves, but again, it was pretty complicated to get going.
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