In previous articles, we already talked about how we can perform local and remote backups using rsync and how to setup the rsync daemon. In this tutorial we will learn a very useful technique we can use to perform incremental backups, and schedule them using the good old cron.
In this tutorial you will learn:
- The difference between hard and symbolic links
- What is an incremental backup
- How the rsync –link-dest option works
- How to create incremental backups using rsync
- How to schedule backups using cron