On 06/19/2014 09:10 AM, Fred Smith wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 07:59:01AM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have decided to also create an incremental backup on my own and was >> wondering what you would recommend. I did some DDG'ing around and came >> up with rdiff-backup. Would you recommend this? (There are >> some more, but this one appears to have an rpm in the fedora >> repositories.) Personally, I am a great fan of rsync but I also wanted a >> setup that would be fast because I would like to run it every hour >> (say). > I'm no expert on these things, but I can suggest you take a look at > rsnapshot, which uses rsync to do the deed. It is probably most suitable > for backing up individual computers, or small numbers of systems, though > my own personal computer at home is all I've used it for, so far. > it's quick because it only copies the changes. rsnapshot.org. > > I fully concur with rsnapshot. While this is not a traditional backup program, it uses the rsync --link-dest to create hard links. The end result is that you have essentially a snapshot of the directory tree you are backing up. Identical files between snapshots are hard linked so they do not take up additional space. I have used rsnapshot at home, but also I used it at work. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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