Not at all making the point you're wrong! Just finding interesting information. Some random internet dood used the 'backup' label too therefore I must be wrong! However, you don't have to use tape as your backup medium it is both possible and vastly more efficient to perform incremental backups with rsync. These are called "incremental" backups, and are supported by the venerable old dump and tar utilities, along with many others. Since making a full copy of a large filesystem can be a time-consuming and expensive process, it is common to make full backups only once a week or once a month, and store only changes on the other days. Rsync's specialty is efficiently synchronizing file trees across a network, but it works fine on a single machine too. If you have a common Linux or UNIX variant, then you probably already have it installed if not, you can download the source code from. The rsync utility is a very well-known piece of GPL'd software, written originally by Andrew Tridgell and Paul Mackerras. It isn’t intended to be used to backup your personal files.īackintime or Grsync is a good tool to backup your personal files.Īnd in Easy automated snapshot-style backups with Linux and Rsync the author mentions early in the article: Timeshift as many have explained is designed to create a snapshot of the file system only. There is a copy of a directory and its subdirectories, depending on the options you choose.Īssuming you have setup grsync to copy and/or delete some files, to restore the copy is usually just a copy/paste operation. It doesn't do 'backups', it copies and deletes files to keep two directories in sync, so there is no concept of incremental backups, the latest backup, the oldest backup or any type of backup at all. rsync is a synchronisation application used to synchronise one set of directories with another. I think you have completely misunderstood the purpose of the application. Grsync doesn’t have a special restore function such as Timeshift has in its interface? Is their a reason to keep any other than the last backup?Īfter a system breakdown and restoration through the Install DVD, do I simply select the documents folder in media/mick and copy it back to home/mick? ![]() If I put a backup back, do I simply copy the latest one?Ĥ. Is each backup nevertheless fully complete and independent?ģ. Is this function a default setting of Grsync?Ģ. does a new backup only change changed or deleted and new files and folders? I can run it with the go!-icon on the right ![]() I changed ownership of the partition or directory from root to mick: It looks like this:ĭocuments and timeshift are mounted in /media/mick in the file system.ģ. With GParted I created a partition for personal documents on an external hard disk. I installed Grsync with the Synaptic package manager.Ģ.
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