[COLUG] Home based backup

[Tom Hanlon]

On 17 Jun 2007, at 23:16, Brett Stauffer wrote:

> On Sun, June 17, 2007 9:27 pm, Rick Troth wrote:
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>> [ rsync ] does not provide incrementals
>
> rsync doesn't support incrementals per se, but in recent versions,  
> you can
> emulate it with the very handy "--link-dest" option.

Isn't there some nifty little trick of using symlinks to get your  
incrementals ?

I can chase down the link.
It was something like what this rsnapshot does..
http://blog.innerewut.de/articles/2005/05/25/remote-filesystem- 
snapshots-with-rsnapshot


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> --brett
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