yaribak 0.0.3

Yet another rsync incremental backup utility

Yet another rsync based incremental backup utility.

Purpose

A simple wrapper to use over rsync, to maintain incremental backups in differnet directories.

Comparison with Timeshift

This replicates part of timeshift's functionality.

Intendended to complement timeshift in backing up non-system directories.

Although this can be used to backup the root system, timeshift may be a better option for that since it allows pretty safe restoring of the system.

Major differences from timeshift are -

• Allows you to choose destination directory
• Does not provide any automated restore functionality
• Can only be used from command line

Major similarities are -

• Does not require additional space when there is no change
• Uses hard links to replicate entire folder structure on any of the backups

Setup and Usage

Setup

Simply clone this repo, and use python3 to run the code.

Example Usage

Backup home directory -

yaribak \
  --source path/to/source \
  --backup-path path/to/backups

The following structure will be generated in the backup directory (for this example, after 3 calls) -

$ ls path/to/backups
_backup_20220306_232441
_backup_20220312_080749
_backup_20220314_110741

Each directory will have a full copy of the source.

However, any file that remains unchanged will be hard linked, preserving space.