Still one of my all time favorite approaches is the DIY-style snapshot-based system with rsync and hard links, which keeps snapshot sizes small: This example k

Still one of my all time favorite approaches is the DIY-style snapshot-based system with rsync and hard links, which keeps snapshot sizes small: This example keeps the days worth of filesystem backups: rm -rf backup.3 mv backup.2 backup.3 mv backup.1 backup.2 cp -al backup.0 backup.1 rsync -a --delete source_directory/ backup.0/ More details: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ Trinkup is a script that automates this approach, somewhat like rsnapshot: https://gist.github.com/ei-grad/7610406 https://gist.github.com/ei-grad/7610406