If you use rsnapshot or back in time or the many other rsync based backup/snapshot tools onto a Unix/Linux file system, you effectively have an incremental backup system. They use hard links to link all the duplicates
On Thu, May 25, 2023, 5:10 PM Kent Borg <[email protected]> wrote: > On 5/25/23 12:15, Bill Bogstad wrote: > > Buy an > > internal drive with known good capabilities and pair it with a cheap > > ($10-$15) > > dollar external case. You can even get m.2 NVME to USB external > > cases pretty cheaply. > > You convinced me. I just ordered an M.2 SSD and I hope a matching USB-C > external case, for backups of my laptop. I was cheap and only got a 2TB > SSD (cheap!), but my laptop only has a 1/2-TB drive in it, so though I > would like to have more room for incremental backups, I suspect I'll > survive. > > As much as I am suspicious of SSDs I suspect it will be more reliable > than these damn WD drives that keep failing. > > > Thanks for the advice. > > -kb > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
