slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

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On 19.06.2014 15:10, 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.
>
>

http://duplicity.nongnu.org/
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/DejaDup
Not that I recommend. :)


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