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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

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 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. > You can use

I use rsync to backup several servers to harddisk on a backupserver. To save space i use the --link-dest option which creates a hardlink to the file of the last backup if the file hasn?t changed. Under certain circumstances the file doesn?t exist in the last backup, but in the second last backup ore somwhere else. If for example a backup couldn?t be completed (maybe because of a loss of power)

Folks I have been using 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 11/09/2015 09:22 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > You can use "newer" options of the find command and pass the file list > to rsync or scp to "backup" only those files that have changed since > the last run. You can keep a file like .lastbackup and timestamp it > (touch) at the start of the backup process. Next backup you compare > the current timestamp with the