On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:54:34 +0300 Volkan Yazıcı <yazicivo@ttmail.com> wrote: > In such a case, AFAIK, I won't be able to take benefit of > incremental backups and I will need to tar+cp the whole disk > everytime I want to take a backup. Am I mistaken? You could use duplicity (http://www.nongnu.org/duplicity/) for incremental backups within tar archives - and I'm sure there are other similar tools. Regards, -- Andrej