I love rsnapshot. I like to think if I wrote a backup program, it would be a lot like rsnapshot. This post is about how I chose to use rsnapshot for my local backups. I had to learn some new things to understand how it works, so please correct me where I’m wrong. In a nutshell, it uses rsync to make a copy of a directory. When it makes a copy, it moves the old copy to a new place, and links to the first copy with hard links. Then only the files that changed are updated. Maybe this overview … Continue reading I Love rsnapshot