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ThurberMingus  ·  2731 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 5, 2016

The amount of data I have that both changes frequently and is vital to have available right after a computer crash is less than a few gigs, All of that is in either dropbox or Google drive free storage, and the more sensitive stuff i keep in encrypted volumes in Dropbox. But the less important stuff i want backed up is >1tb, so I didn't want to pay for a cloud backup service since it would get expensive and I didn't think it was necessary.

Rsnapshot is basically just some rotation scripts for rsync, so it has the bandwidth benefits of incremental backups, but saves me some backup management complexity. I also like the way rsnapshot stores the backup file tree: it used hard links for identical files, but it doesn't store differentials for changed files- it stores the whole file. This takes up a bit more space, but it again simplifies the admin: I simply share that backed up file tree read-only to the network, and authorized users can restore accidentally changed or deleted files without remote access to the server (wife-friendliness).

So that's why I picked rsnapshot over rsync or rdiff-backup.