designed to manage user specified directories referred to as sync targets from here on out, in tmpfs and to periodically sync them back to the physical disc (HDD/SSD)
rsync hfsmode is a patch for rsync to enable recognition of Mac OS X HFS resource forks and Finder metadata, and to copy them to a remote filesystem. The destination system can be any OS and filesystem that supports rsync, so you can use rsync to archive Mac OS X files to servers running Linux, Solaris, et cetera.
rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can still recover files los
Based on this great blog post by Tim McCormack, I managed to write some scripts that back up files to Amazon S3. The files are encrypted with GnuPG and rsync-ed to S3 using a Python-based tool called duplicity.
Duplicity is a backup program that only backs up the files (and parts of files) that have been modified since the last backup. Built on FLOSS (rsync, GnuPG, tar, and rdiff), it allows efficient, locally encrypted, remote backups.
rsback makes rotating backups using the common rsync program (http://rsync.samba.org) and some standard file utilities on Unix-based backup hosts. Its purpose is to mirror certain file trees from a remote host or from the local system and to store them as
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