[COLUG] Home based backup

[Brett Stauffer]

On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 12:40 -0400, Tom Hanlon wrote:

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

> > 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 ?

Yes, but "--link-dest" uses hard links, which is a better method in most
cases.


--brett