rsnapshot
Filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync
rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility built on rsync that makes incremental backups of local and remote machines. It uses hard links to keep multiple full backups while saving disk space.
Key features
- Hard-link snapshot rotation
- Local and remote backups
- Low storage overhead
Strengths
- Released under the GPL-2.0 license
- Active community (3.7k GitHub stars)
- Written in Perl
- Tiny footprint — runs in 64 MB RAM
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