On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 3:08 PM Wol <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: > > On 30/01/2024 19:19, Rich Freeman wrote: > > I'd echo the other advice. It really depends on your goals. > > If you just want a simple backup, I'd use something like rsync onto lvm > or btrfs or something. I've got a little script that sticks today's date > onto the snapshot name
So, you've basically described what rsnapshot does, minus half the features. You should consider looking at it. It is basically an rsync wrapper and will automatically rotate multiple snapshots, and when it makes them they're all hard-linked such that they're as close to copy-on-write copies as possible. The result is that all those snapshots don't take up much space, unless your files are constantly changing. -- Rich
