slightly OT: incremental backup suggestions

[Neal Becker]

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).
> 
> OK, I know this is OT, but it is slightly so because the system used to
> backup are updated F20 systems:-)
> 
> Any suggestions/personal experiences/suggested tweaks/references would
> be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Many thanks and best wishes,
> Ranjan
> 

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