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Incremental Backups Using rsync

We can combine rsync and cp -al to create what appear to be multiple full backups of a filesystem without taking multiple disks' worth of space.

This is a really neat and efficient method for backing up data which utilises the fact that rsync will always unlink an inode before overwriting it.

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