Linux.com follows up on their rsync tutorial, with one on "rsnapshot".
A few weeks ago, CLI Magic had a story about rsync for backups. Several readers pointed out higher-level backup utilities based on rsync, and this week we are going to take a look at one of those: rsnapshot. In addition to improving ease-of-use, rsnapshot allows you to keep multiple snapshots in time of your data, local or remote, without requiring the full set to be included in each one. More backups, less space. What could be better? Come on down to the CLI, and let's take a look.
Rsnapshot is included in the native distributions of OpenDarwin, the three BSDs, GenToo, and Debian Linux. There is a version for SlackWare available here. If your platform is not in that list, you can download the latest source tarball here and build it yourself. You'll need to have both perl and rsync installed on your system for rsnapshot to work. It's also good idea to have OpenSSH, logger, GNU cp, and GNU du as well.
