James Youngman wrote: > (2) It would be useful to have a historic backup capability too (e.g. > the way the filesystem looked yesterday, last week, last month and a > year ago), at least for filesystems like /home. > I am currently using Disk Dirvish <http://www.dirvish.org> which does an excellent job of keeping multiple backup copies. It uses the --link option of rsync to reduce the amount of disk space required.