incremental backups with rsync

[ccc]

Hi

Can I do incremental backups of the running freeBSD server using rsync?

 

[DutchDaemon]

sysutils/rsnapshot would be easier

 

[francisco1844]

There is also sysutils/rdiff-backup

 

[francisco1844]

In case it was not clear from the first 2 replies.. Rsync, alone, does not do incremental backups. You could use it along with your own set of scrypts, but it is easier to just use a program that was designed from the get go to support incremental backups.

 

[phoenix]

Rsync can be used for incremental backups if you use ZFS snapshot. That's how we do things. All the gory details are in the How-To forum.

 

[ccc]

Rsync can be used for incremental backups if you use ZFS snapshot. That's how we do things. All the gory details are in the How-To forum.

Thx, but can you pls post a link to the How-To manual?

 

[dennylin93]

There's always the search button. Here it is anyway: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3689.

 

[BeastieBoy]

There is also sysutils/rdiff-backup

Can it handle big uploaded files? I'm having concerns about the subfolder that holds references to older versions of the files. That looks like an SCM such as git or hg, and they are definitely not designed to track big files.