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Hi I'm trying to build a backup system based on rsync. It should work with different destinations (local, share, remote etc) that's why I'm looking for ways how every operation can be controlled from the client side. I want to create full backups and incremental backups. For the incremental backups I use --compare-dest lastfullbackup. This works nicely except that the whole directory

Try having a look at this, for inspiration. It does require the capability of hard-links on the remote end though... and it does not resolve your "delete target directory" either, but it might save you some fiddeling around :-) https://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/rsync_time_machine.html HC On 02-06-2016 10:27, Fabian Cenedese wrote: > Hi > > I'm trying to build a backup system based on rsync. It should > work with different destinations (local, share, remote etc) that's > why I'm looking for ways how every operation can be controlled > from the...

...>Try having a look at this, for inspiration. > >It does require the capability of hard-links on the remote end though... and it does not resolve your "delete target directory" either, but it might save you some fiddeling around :-) > >https://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/rsync_time_machine.html Thanks, I already saw that before. I looked for existing backup programs but none really did what I wanted that's why I'm trying to do it myself. This script is bash and also uses the "remote shell hacks" using SSH. As I want to run it also from Windows I'm looking for...