rsync/incementral

[Ashley Aitken]

On 29/07/2007, at 9:59 PM, Arno Hautala wrote:

> There's also rsnapshot which uses rsync to make incremental  
> backups.  http://www.rsnapshot.org/
> Specifically, it'll handle all the complexities of link-dest.  What  
> you really want is something like the following
> backup to /Volumes/backup/kreme.date.1
> backup to /Volumes/backup/kreme.date.2 with link-dest to /Volumes/ 
> backup/kreme.date.1
> backup to /Volumes/backup/kreme.date.3 with link-dest to /Volumes/ 
> backup/kreme.date.2
> backup to /Volumes/backup/kreme.date.4 with link-dest to /Volumes/ 
> backup/kreme.date.3
> etc
>
> This way each backup is incremental based on the previous backup.

I haven't read your email(s) closely or used it lately, but isn't  
this what RsyncX does?

It lets you set things up with a GUI too (although not much of a GUI).

It may be out of date now but I used it successful a ways back.

Cheers,
Ashley.