On 5/26/24 21:27, Antony Stone wrote:
> On Sunday 26 May 2024 at 20:08:19, nisp1953 via Dng wrote:
[snip]
>> I am backing up about 34 GB of data. It's small but important.
> In that case I would not even consider incremental backups - I would take a
> full backup every day, and write it to a different directory (or even
> partition) on the external drive. I cannot imagine you are using disks
> smaller than 7 x 34 Gb = 238 Gbytes.

Or do something in between via Rsync using the --link-dest option.

I've been using rsync(1) with --link-dest comfortably for quite some
time now. I use stat(1) and date(1) to find the day of the year from
the previous run and point rsync(1) to that.

/Lars