On 06/19/2014 09:10 AM, Fred Smith wrote:
On Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 07:59:01AM -0500, 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).
I'm no expert on these things, but I can suggest you take a look at rsnapshot, which uses rsync to do the deed. It is probably most suitable for backing up individual computers, or small numbers of systems, though my own personal computer at home is all I've used it for, so far. it's quick because it only copies the changes. rsnapshot.org.
I fully concur with rsnapshot. While this is not a traditional backup program, it uses the rsync --link-dest to create hard links. The end result is that you have essentially a snapshot of the directory tree you are backing up. Identical files between snapshots are hard linked so they do not take up additional space. I have used rsnapshot at home, but also I used it at work.