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From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>
To: Clint Olsen <clint.olsen@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Anyone used rsync scriptology for incremental backup?
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On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 04:19:26PM -0700, Clint Olsen wrote:
> I've seen some stuff online that made it look like using hard-link trees
> and then doing some rsync worked, but some of this appears to be obsoleted
> by new rsync features.  If anyone has a pointer, that would be much
> appreciated.

We use sysutils/rsnapshot to take care of all of this in a very clean
manner.

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