Re: Backup Times on a Linux desktop

[Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com>]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2019, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 06:01:54 -1000
> Joel Roth <joelz@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> > These days I use rsync with the --link-dest option to make
> > complete Time-Machine(tm) style backups using hardlinks to
> > avoid file duplication in the common case.  In this
> > scenario, the top-level directory is typically named based
> > on date and time, e.g. back-2019.11.04-05:32:06.
> 
> Take a look at rsnapshot. You have pretty well described it.

Looks like a featureful, capable, and thoroughly debugged
front end to rsync with the --link-dest option. 

Thanks, I'll fool around with this. 

Also for the explanations about file integrity issues when
databases are involved. 

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Joel Roth