for incremental backups you'd use something like dump/restore or maybe cpio or tar but not rsync.
you'd probably want to use rsync to build something like the time machine with hard links. further information: dump and restore manpages, the time machine wiki page. On Fri 20. Feb 2026 at 14:58, Shadrock Uhuru <[email protected]> wrote: > > hi everyone > i'm using rsync incremental backup and > i'm trying to understand which backups are full and which are > incremental, > my backup policy is 7 daily 4 weekly 12 monthly 1 yearly backup > for the daily backups > monday is a full backup > and tuesday to sunday are incremental. > is that the same for my weekly and monthly backups > where the first week is a full backup > and the following weeks are incremental backup of the previous week ? > > shadrock > >
