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Create incremental backups using an rsync shell script
Authored by: lar3ry on Mar 22, '07 11:14:08AM

I've had only one problem with rdiff-backup. I had an incremental respository that, for some unknown reason, because unusable or corrupted. Long story short: unable to get to an incremental, so I gave rdiff-backup the boot. Sorry, but a backup solution that isn't 100% reliable isn't a backup solution.

rsync has incremental support, using the --backup and --backup-dir options (check out the man page).

I use rsync (even with the so-called "problems" it has on OS X) with --backup and haven't had a single problem, and have been able to get to every incremental that I ever wanted.



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