On 2017-08-17, Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc...@yandex.com> wrote: > Hello. > > Currently I use rsync to make the backups of my personal data, including > some manually selected important files of system configuration. I keep > old backups to be more safe from the scenario where I have deleted > something important, I make a backup, and I only notice the deletion > afterwards. > > Each backup snapshot is stored in its own directory. There is much > redundancy between subsequent backups. I use the option "--link-dest" to > make hard links and thus save space for files that are *identical* to an > already-existing file in the backup repository. but this is still > inefficient. Any change to a file, even to its metadata (permission, > modification time, etc.), will result in the file being saved at whole, > instead of a delta. > > Can you suggest a more efficient alternative? >
(...) I use duplicity for exactly this scenario. See the wiki page[1] to get started. 1: https://wiki.debian.org/Duplicity -- Liam
