The Natural Philosopher  wrote:
> >
> > I've using rsnapshot recently, which I have found great, simple enough
> > for an incompetent like myself.
> >
> All my irreplaceable data is rsynced overnight. Handy when I
> accidentally delete something - last night's backup is still there.
>
I run incremental backups of /home and /etc, firstly I do hourly
backups to a local (but separate) disk drive on my desktop machine,
secondly their are daily incremental backups to the Pi + USB system
which is out in the garage (quite a long way from the house).

I used to use rsnapshot but then wrote my own incremental backup
software using rsync's --link-dest option which sends the backups to
an rsync server process running on the Pi.  This makes the backups
more secure because an intruder on the backed-up systems isn't able to
(easily) get at the backups on the remote system. Since they're
incremental backups they can't be overwritten remotely either.

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Chris Green
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