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Re: Recommendation: Backup system

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Hello Teemu,

> > rsync, whilst an awesome piece of software, is not, on its own, a
> > backup system.
>
> Yes. With some scripting I think "rsync" with "--link-dest" is quite
> ideal for incremental backups. Unchanged files are created as hard links
> for the previous backup files. Every backup generation is just a normal
> and complete file system tree.

I haven't followed this thread closely, but:

To everybody who ponders using rsync for backup, I strongly suggest a
closer look at "dirvish". I'm using it to backup servers, laptops,
raspberries. It is not hard to configure, uses rsync with hard links
for "incremental" backups and keeps older versions of the backups.

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Markus Grunwald

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Recommendation: Backup system mo <mo777@gmx.net> - 2016-10-01 11:40 +0200
  Re: Recommendation: Backup system Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 14:50 +0200
    Re: Recommendation: Backup system mo <mo777@gmx.net> - 2016-10-01 15:10 +0200
    Re: Recommendation: Backup system Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-10-01 18:30 +0200
      Re: Recommendation: Backup system Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> - 2016-10-01 18:50 +0200
        Re: Recommendation: Backup system Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-10-01 19:50 +0200
          Re: Recommendation: Backup system Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk> - 2016-10-01 20:00 +0200
            Re: Recommendation: Backup system Glenn English <ghe2001@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 22:10 +0200
            Re: Recommendation: Backup system Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-10-02 06:20 +0200
      Re: Recommendation: Backup system Glenn English <ghe2001@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 22:00 +0200
        Re: Recommendation: Backup system mo <mo777@gmx.net> - 2016-10-01 22:50 +0200
      Re: Recommendation: Backup system mo <mo777@gmx.net> - 2016-10-01 22:40 +0200
  Re: Recommendation: Backup system Bob Weber <bobrweber@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 16:50 +0200
    Re: Recommendation: Backup system mo <mo777@gmx.net> - 2016-10-01 17:10 +0200
    Re: Recommendation: Backup system Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 17:40 +0200
  Re: Recommendation: Backup system mo <mo777@gmx.net> - 2016-10-01 17:20 +0200
  Re: Recommendation: Backup system Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-10-01 19:10 +0200
    Re: Recommendation: Backup system mo <mo777@gmx.net> - 2016-10-01 22:50 +0200
  Re: Recommendation: Backup system mo <mo777@gmx.net> - 2016-10-01 22:50 +0200
    Re: Recommendation: Backup system Bob Weber <bobrweber@gmail.com> - 2016-10-01 23:10 +0200
      Re: Recommendation: Backup system mo <mo777@gmx.net> - 2016-10-02 10:50 +0200
        Re: Recommendation: Backup system rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-10-02 15:00 +0200
          Re: Recommendation: Backup system Bob Weber <bobrweber@gmail.com> - 2016-10-03 01:20 +0200
    Re: Recommendation: Backup system Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-10-02 03:00 +0200
      Re: Recommendation: Backup system mo <mo777@gmx.net> - 2016-10-02 11:00 +0200
        Re: Recommendation: Backup system Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2016-10-02 13:10 +0200
          Re: Recommendation: Backup system mo <mo777@gmx.net> - 2016-10-02 14:40 +0200
  Re: Recommendation: Backup system Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-10-03 11:50 +0200
    Re: Recommendation: Backup system Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2016-10-03 14:40 +0200
      Re: Recommendation: Backup system Markus Grunwald <markus@the-grue.de> - 2016-10-03 14:50 +0200
        Re: Recommendation: Backup system Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2016-10-05 04:10 +0200
          Re: Recommendation: Backup system Daniel Bareiro <daniel-listas@gmx.net> - 2016-10-05 05:10 +0200
            Re: Recommendation: Backup system Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2016-10-05 23:40 +0200
          Re: Recommendation: Backup system Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-10-07 12:20 +0200
            Re: Recommendation: Backup system Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2016-10-12 12:10 +0200
      Re: Recommendation: Backup system Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-10-03 17:10 +0200
    Re: Recommendation: Backup system Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> - 2016-10-10 19:30 +0200
      Re: Recommendation: Backup system Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2016-10-11 00:00 +0200
        Re: Recommendation: Backup system Dave Thayer <debian1628420.dmthayer@recursor.net> - 2016-10-11 05:40 +0200
  Re: Recommendation: Backup system Jarle Aase <jgaa@jgaa.com> - 2016-10-04 20:50 +0200

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