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Differential backup scripts using rsync and hardlinks.
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This is a toolset to setup and run a backup server that pulls
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differential daily, weekly and monthly backups from any number of
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hosts and stores them on the local harddrive. For this, it uses rsync
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and its mechanism to hardlink against already existing files, so only
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new and changed files are copied over the network. This saves harddisk
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space and network bandwidth, but you still have a full file system
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hierarchy tree the same way it is represented on the host that has
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been backuped. That makes it easy to restore. The only disadvantage of
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this method is, that hardlinks on the host are not preserved (but
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softlinks and anything else are).
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For monitoring your backups, you can provide an email address to get
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notification in case of error and there is an Icinga (Nagios) pluging
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provided. |