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This sounds a lot like rdiff-backup, which uses rsync and hard links to provide incremental backups: http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/features.html http://rdiff-
by molecule 13y ago
This sounds a lot like rdiff-backup, which uses rsync and hard links to provide incremental backups:
http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/features.html http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/features.html
- janzer 13y agoYet another one is http://www.rsnapshot.org/ http://www.rsnapshot.org/ there have been a fair number of these created over the years.
- hannibal5 13y agoor rsync into zfs filesystem with snapshots.
- unhammer 13y agoor rsync into (optionally LUKS-encrypted) btrfs filesystem with snapshots.
- torrance 13y agordiff-backup uses reverse diffs for its incremental backups, not hard links. This has the nice advantage of when large files change, the backup size changes only by the diff, not a whole new version of the file.