>> > Having been there and done that, I can assure you that having a >> > live snapshot system -- rsnapshot or btrfs/zfs native tools -- >> > is more fun and less work for everyone.
I looked at rsnapshot but its behavior is poor when you have lots of
directories with lots of tiny files.
It'd probably be fairly easy to come up with a backup system based on Git
(probably not good for whole-system backups, but likely workable for
homedir backups), but I haven't come across such a thing yet.
Stefan
