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...rsnapshot for years now. The only problem I've found is that it is possible to run out of inodes. So my heads-up is that when you create the file system, ensure you have more than the default inodes - I usually multiply the default by 10. Otherwise you can find your 1Tb USB drive failing after 259Mb and you can't then recover the files. Rather embarrassing. > On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Alessandro Baggi > <alessandro.baggi at gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi list, >> how to perform a differential backup using rsync? >> >> On web there is a great confusion ab...

...now. The only problem I've found is > that it is possible to run out of inodes. So my heads-up is that when you > create the file system, ensure you have more than the default inodes - I > usually multiply the default by 10. Otherwise you can find your 1Tb USB > drive failing after 259Mb and you can't then recover the files. Rather > embarrassing. or use a file system, like xfs, that has no static allocations. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

Hi list, how to perform a differential backup using rsync? On web there is a great confusion about diff backup concept when searched with rsync. Users says diff because it copy only differences. For me differential is backup from last full backup. Other users says that to perform a differential backup I must include in rsync command: --backup --backup-dir=/some/path but from manual page of