Looking for application to clone a disk with incremental backup

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Rick Stevens <ricks at alldigital.com> wrote:
>>
>> Do you know of some application to clone a disk with incremental
>> backup? I know about clonezilla, but, unfortunately, clonezilla does
>> not have yet differential/incremental backup implemented. (
>> http://clonezilla.org/ )
>
> Well, sure. Cloning a drive is a totally different thing than doing
> backups (which are typically file-based) and I doubt a clone package
> will ever have incremental backup capacity.
>
> After all, a clone is a snapshot of the drive at the time the clone was
> done. Incremental backups are based on a full backup, then differences
> between the last time a backup was done and the current backup.
>
> For incremental backups, you could do something as simple as rsync or
> use one of the many backup utilities around (amanda, bacula,
> mondorescue, etc.).

Thanks, Rick, for your reply. The idea of a cloning application with
differential / incremental backup is not mine, but inspired on what is
written at the clonezilla site:

"Differential/incremental backup is not implemented yet."

Paul