File system backup scripts or utils

[William Hooper]

Sorry "WipeOut" for starting a new thread, but I don't have the original
mail anymore.

> I want to have a seperate directory created each day with the backed
> up files in.. Also I want files that have not changed to be symlinked
> to the previous version of the file so that I don't need ten times the
> disk space of the original source on the backup system and don't have
> to transfer the entire file set over the network to the backup system
> only the changed files..

LinuxJournal this month mentions www.rsnapshot.org:

"...als makes use of hard links for storage, so the same file isn't stored
twice but hard linked...Requires: Perl, rsync, and SSH"
-- 
William Hooper