Rick Thomas on 13/04/09 22:19, wrote:
It does exactly what you are asking for and it does it automatically. And it's a debian package:$ aptitude show rsnapshot Package: rsnapshot State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 1.2.9-1 Priority: optional Section: utils Maintainer: Simon Boulet <simon@nostalgeek.com> Uncompressed Size: 457k Depends: perl, rsync, logrotate Recommends: ssh Description: local and remote filesystem snapshot utilityrsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility. It can take incremental snapshots of local and remote filesystems for any number of machines. rsnapshot makes extensive use of hard links, so disk space is only used when absolutely necessary.Homepage: http://www.rsnapshot.org/Tags: admin::backup, implemented-in::perl, implemented-in::shell, role::program, use::storing, works-with::file
How does rsnapshot compare to faubackup? I'm using faubackup for a year or so now and it seems to work fine.
It's also in debian packages and does pretty much exactly the same as rsnapshot: Description: Backup System using a Filesystem for Storage This Program uses a filesystem on a hard drive for incremental and full backups. All Backups can easily be accessed by standard filesystem tools (ls, find, grep, cp, ...) . Later Backups to the same filesystem will automatically be incremental, as unchanged files are only hard-linked with the existing version of the file.Tag: admin::backup, hardware::storage, interface::commandline, interface::daemon, role::program, scope::utility, use::storing