How to create incremental backups using rsync on Linux | Linux Today

How to create incremental backups using rsync on Linux

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Egidio Docile
Aug 20, 2020

In previous articles, we already talked about how we can perform local and remote backups using rsync and how to setup the rsync daemon. In this tutorial we will learn a very useful technique we can use to perform incremental backups, and schedule them using the good old cron.

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Egidio Docile

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