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Re:Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync by znull on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @08:34PM (#1217339)
http://www.dirvish.org/ and http://rsnapshot.org/ are both wrappers around rsync that do exactly this. Eventually, though, I switched to http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ for the network backends and the encryption.
Re:Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync by weaksauce on Wednesday March 24, 2010 @09:34PM (#1217440)
How do you like duplicity? That looks like a good solution for my work backups.
Re:Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync by znull on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @05:00PM (#1233012)
I haven't pushed it very hard. I'm only using it for personal stuff.

That said, it's pretty good at DWIM for a command-line tool. It works as advertised and doesn't require any fiddling once you have it set up.

cons: command line syntax is verbose. Enough so that there's a wrapper for it (http://duply.net/) which I also recommend. Access to backups isn't as straightforward as with forest-of-hardlinks approaches.

I'd be interested to hear how it holds up to production use.

Re:Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync by andrewcooke on Thursday March 25, 2010 @01:26AM (#1217809)
some of the comments about rdiff-backup (below) might also apply to duplicity, since it seems to share much of the same internals (duplicity seems to be the encrypted version of rdiff-backup).