[Question | Feature Request] incremental backup for rsync

[bobemoe]

docs mention incremental backup for tar but not rsync? is that correct? (i've not tried phpbb yet)

i've created a simple multi-host backup manager bash script, using rsync hard links to give browsable filesystem incremental snapshots "time machine?" but its not got a very nice interface or cron etc

I was wondering if phpbu does, or could do what I describe? or maybe I could port my bash script to php so we could implement?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=rsync+hard+link+incremental

[sebastianfeldmann]

Hi,

in order to do incremental backups with rsync you have to take care of some symlink and folder managing besides the actual rsync execution. This surely is possible, but I would recommend to build a phpbu plugin to implement that kind of backup.

The scheduling part (cron) should never be handled within phpbu.

[bobemoe]

Thanks, thats good news, it sounds like plugins are the way to go :) I think I will give this a try.