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Time Machine style backup with rsync in 540 lines of code

• terminalhealth 7y ago
  Also works on Windows via WSL. The repo is active, but urgently needs maintainers.
• pwg 7y ago
  The description sounds like this mirrors a lot of the functionality found in rsnapshot (https://rsnapshot.org/ https://rsnapshot.org/). What are the advantages here vs. what rsnapshot already provides?
  • chopin 7y ago
    Or backintime (https://github.com/bit-team/backintime https://github.com/bit-team/backintime). The only thing I am missing is that it doesn't work for sshfs mounted devices. Which is not provided by any alternative tool which supports snapshots (probably because of problems with hard links, although I never had issues with those over sshfs).
  • terminalhealth 7y ago
    I don't know. I could not find a comparison, but I did find this Reddit thread which gives an overview over different programs: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/9tkpxx/rsyncbased_osxlike_time_machine_for_linux_and_bsd/e8x73vf/ https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/9tkpxx/rsyncbased_os...
• mthoms 7y ago
  To me, the fact that it doesn't provide a fancy GUI on MacOS is a pro not a con. I'd much prefer to browse the snapshots using a normal file browser. The Time Machine GUI was cool at first. Now it's just obnoxious.