On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 12:54 PM, Lamar Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > I actually use an rsync mirror (the copy is done with rsync -avHAX, although > symlinks can be disturbed if not careful) to another disk; an rsync backup > is restored quite simply, and using hardlinking can trim quite a bit of > space used as well as giving you snapshotting. Backuppc I think uses a > similar methodology, but it is overkill for my purposes.
For folks using this sort of backup, Do take a look at the "rsnapshot" software at rsnapshot.org. It's reasonably well structured and can save a lot of work trying to organize a set of efficiently hardlinked backups..
