What backup tool should I use for easy incremental backups?

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I want to do nightly backups of the whole system and be able to rollback to any of last 7 days. And, it must be incremental backups. What tool should I use? The tutorials I've read about rsync tell only how to store latest incremental backup and I need last 7.

What media do you plan to backup to? Tape? NFS? Disk? SMB? – ewwhite Sep 04 '11 at 19:22 — ewwhite, Sep 04 '11 at 19:22
I plan to backup to disk and also upload backups to ftp – Poma Sep 05 '11 at 05:20 — Poma, Sep 05 '11 at 05:20

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 04 '11 at 21:32

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Have you considered rsnapshot? It uses rsync for the incremental backup, but gives you as many snapshots as you want (and have space for).

Similar to jcisio's suggestion, but fully packaged.

answered Sep 04 '11 at 21:32

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score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 05 '11 at 14:37

I think you want a backup solution that uses small disk space.

With rsync and hard links you can create backup and roll back to any previous snapshot. Only files which are modified use disk space. You can even create 365 snapshots and roll back to any of them, and it does not uses too much disk space (supposing that your files does not change much: if everyday you replace your files with completely different files, then there is really no efficient incremental backup solution).

A helpful tutorial is http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 04 '11 at 19:23

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If you are un ubuntu why don't use integrated SimpleBackupSuite ? Is simple and easy to use .

Otherwise you can do wat you want with bacula but is not easy to use as SimpleBackupSuite.

answered Sep 04 '11 at 19:23

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I'm using server edition and don't have a gui. I know about bacula but it's way too complicated. – Poma Sep 05 '11 at 06:44

ewwhite · Answer 4 · 2011-09-04T21:39:15.570

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If you're looking for an inexpensive robust commercial package that works well on standalone systems and can do bare-metal recovery, you can try Cactus Lone-Tar. It uses a variety of transports and can handle multiple types of destinations. Cataloging and Master/Selective/Incremental backups are very easy to schedule and maintain.

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answered Sep 04 '11 at 19:44

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What backup tool should I use for easy incremental backups?

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