Rsnapshot (Rsync Based) A Local/Remote File System Backup Utility for Linux | Linux Today

Rsnapshot (Rsync Based) A Local/Remote File System Backup Utility for Linux

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Ravi Saive
Oct 31, 2013

rsnapshot is an open source local / remote filesystem backup utility was written in Perl language that advantage the power of Rsync and SSH program to create, scheduled incremental backups of Linux/Unix filesystems, while only taking up the space of one single full backup plus differences and keep those backups on local drive to different hard drive, an external USB stick, an NFS mounted drive or simple over the network to another machine via SSH.

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Ravi Saive

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