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Re: increment backup of home dir



On 3/14/25 2:25 AM, Chris Green wrote:
Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> wrote:
tim wade (HE12025-03-14):
besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment backup?
Ahem. rsync is not a backup tool.

rsync can be *part of* a backup tool, for example in rsnapshot, or
manually with filesystem snapshots, but rsync alone does not allow you
to recover a file you damaged, which is part of the job description of a
backup tool.

Ah, yes, that's the one I was trying to remember when I suggested
rsyncbackup.  rsnapshot is the one I used to use before I wrote my
own.

I, also use rsnapshot.  With its incremental backups and hard links it is efficient and space saving.  I have about 450 GB of disk space that is about 25% used.  I take 2 backups a day and save the most recent two, plus 7 dailies, 4 weeklies and 3 quarterlies.  The total space taken up by all of that is about 880 GB.  Lots of space left on my 2 TB USB external drive,  No proprietary formats to worry about, either.

Marc


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