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His backup rotation algorithm is very close to what rsnapshot does. https://rsnapshot.org/ https://rsnapshot.org/

• NelsonMinar 4y ago
  I use rsnapshot still! It feels very old fashioned but it works reliably and is easy to understand.
  • mekster 4y ago
    It's good to keep multiple backups with different implementations local and remote. Rsnapshot is hard to break by using very basic principles of file system based files and hard links. If your file system isn't zfs, I think it's a viable backup strategy for local copy while you can use others to take remote backups.
  • russdill 4y ago
    You may really like https://github.com/bup/bup https://github.com/bup/bup if you want something a bit more modern but in the same style
    • pmontra 4y ago
      > bup stores its data in a git-formatted repository. I understand the benefits for deduplication etc. but this is a show stopper for me. I greatly prefer to be able to navigate my backups with cd and ls or the file manager in the GUI and inspect the files directly without having to extract them first. After all I only have to backup a laptop and little else.