On 5/26/24 13:40, viverna via Dng wrote:
> il devuanizzato nisp1953 via Dng <dng@???> il 25-05-24
> 20:07:55 ha scritto:
>> Hello:
>>
>> I recently installed Devuan Daedalus 5.0 and it is working great.
>> Thanks very much. I need advice on ways to backup my /home user
>> account. I have been using tar but I am hoping the list can advise me
>> of a better backup method or Debian (Devuan) package that I can use.
>> I'd prefer something that  does incremental  backups.
> For me rsnapshot is ideal. It is an rsync-based filesystem snapshot
> utility.
>
> Features:
> - full backups and incremental at same time (using hard-link)
> - remote backup via ssh (and locally obviously)
> - simple configuration
>
> To install in devuan:
> apt-get install rsnapshot
>
I really like rsnapshot, too.  It does what it needs to do and restoring
a file (or files) is a 'cp' away.

Marc