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From: Henrik Hudson <rhavenn@rhavenn.net>
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Cc: Clint Olsen <clint.olsen@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Anyone used rsync scriptology for incremental backup?
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On Wednesday 29 October 2008, Clint Olsen <clint.olsen@gmail.com> sent a 
missive stating: 
> 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.

Check out rdiff-backup  it's a python script using the rsync libs.

Henrik
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