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Hi there, I use this rsync command to backup "/" of a remote server: rsync -Hav --delete --exclude-from=backup.excludes --delete-excluded -e "ssh -p 45658" root at samwise:/ /mnt/backup/samwise/backup Where: samwise: is the name of the server (yes yes, I know, naming computer after Hobbits may be considered bad form) 45685 is the port samwise is listening on for ssh. I

Normally I would use the --link-dest option to do this but I can't since I'm rsyncing from a Mac to a Samba share on a Linux box and hard links don't work. What I want to do is create a 10 day rotating incremental backup. I used the first script example on the rsync examples page as a template. The only thing I changed was the destination to be a local directory and paths for