I use rsnapshot [1] for /home data and afio [2] for other stuff (offline databases, system, photos, ...) With rsnapshot, I have hourly, daily, weekly and month

I use rsnapshot [1] for /home data and afio [2] for other stuff (offline databases, system, photos, ...) With rsnapshot, I have hourly, daily, weekly and monthly backups that use hard links for the saving disk space. These backup dirs can be mounted read-only. With afio, files above some defined size are compressed and then added to the archive, so that if some compression goes wrong, only that file may be lost, the archive is not corrupted. Can have incremental backups. From the afio webpage: Afio makes cpio-format archives. It deals somewhat gracefully with input data corruption, supports multi-volume archives during interactive operation, and can make compressed archives that are much safer than compressed tar or cpio archives. Afio is best used as an `archive engine' in a backup script. [1] http://rsnapshot.org/ http://rsnapshot.org/ [2] http://members.chello.nl/k.holtman/afio.html http://members.chello.nl/k.holtman/afio.html