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I love rsync. It's also really useful for backing up local files incrementally. It's an easy CLI utility, but there's a GUI as well, called grsync. You can use
by dylangs1030 13y ago
I love rsync. It's also really useful for backing up local files incrementally. It's an easy CLI utility, but there's a GUI as well, called grsync.
You can use cron to automate them, which is how I backup my linux system nightly. Totally recommend it for server and local backups.
- koenigdavidmj 13y agoOne of the useful modes for backups is to take a parameter (--link-dest) specifying a directory containing a previous backup. It will build hard links to the previous backup directory for files that did not change.
- extra88 13y agoI use rsnapshot to automate this hard link creation and backup rotations hourly, daily, weekly, monthly. You still use cron or something else (I've used Launchd on OS X systems) to schedule the runs but rsnapshot takes care of the rest.