Backing Up With rsync And Managing Previous Versions/History

When using backup software, most of them use the versatile tool rsync. With this tool it’s very easy to sync files and directories on the local or a remote host, and thus creating a copy. But most of them do not manage the history of changed and deleted data. Deleted files are also deleted in the backupcopy, changes are simply overwritten. This howto describes how to keep track of these changed and deleted files.

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