rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync. It makes it easy to make periodic snapshots of local machines, and remote machines over ssh. It uses hard links whenever possible, to greatly reduce the disk space required.
License: GNU General Public License (GPL)
Changes:
This release fixes a bug when you have link_dest 1 and sync_first 1 and multiple sources to back up. It fixes a bug with running rsnapshot sync the first time. 'interval' has been renamed to 'retain'. LVM snapshot support has been added. An initial version of the rsnapshot-copy script has been added. 'Backticks' are allowed in include_conf. rsync_numtries has been added. stop_on_stale_lockfile has been added. There are multi-line config options, and various changes to whitespace handling.
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