said by Bill_MI:I got looking at this, thanks. Is this more for having last week and last month snapshot versions of a file always available within the same file system?
Even though rsnapshot implies snapshot, I wouldn't call if that. The first backup is a full backup, subsequent backup runs basically copies the previous backup to the next backup set. In a nut shell, the first backup daily.0 is created, the second daily run copies daily.0 to daily.1 then runs rsync on the changes which becomes daily.0. Unchanged files are hard links. The most recent backup is always daily.0. I backup across multiple file systems. I have rnsapshot configured for 7 daily, 4 weekly and 6 monthly backup sets.
I see the advantage how the overwhelming number of files in these backups that don't change can be a tiny hardlink. But remote backups is pretty much rsync, right?
Both remote and local backups are done with rsync. I back up this system I am typing on to another hard drive in this computer. This computer also acts as a backup server and pulls backups from remote computers and stores it on a hard drive on this computer. I normally do full system backups starting with root "/" and selectively excluding unnecessary directories and files.