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Time Machine style backup with rsync in 540 lines of code (github.com/laurent22)
25 points by terminalhealth on June 12, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


The description sounds like this mirrors a lot of the functionality found in rsnapshot (https://rsnapshot.org/).

What are the advantages here vs. what rsnapshot already provides?


Or backintime (https://github.com/bit-team/backintime).

The only thing I am missing is that it doesn't work for sshfs mounted devices. Which is not provided by any alternative tool which supports snapshots (probably because of problems with hard links, although I never had issues with those over sshfs).


I don't know. I could not find a comparison, but I did find this Reddit thread which gives an overview over different programs:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/9tkpxx/rsyncbased_os...


To me, the fact that it doesn't provide a fancy GUI on MacOS is a pro not a con. I'd much prefer to browse the snapshots using a normal file browser.

The Time Machine GUI was cool at first. Now it's just obnoxious.


Also works on Windows via WSL. The repo is active, but urgently needs maintainers.




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