Discontinued project, in favor of rsnapshot.
Backing up your data similar to Apple's Time Machine by making use of hard links and such...
First a full backup is performed, followed by incremental backups hard linking into the latest previous backup. That way each incremental backup is implicit a full backup.
The timeline consists of a folder containing all the backups made.
A backup is a folder inside the timeline, whose name is given with the format YYYYMMDDTHHMMSS, which is according to the ISO 8601 specificartion.
Each backup is an hard linked incremental backup of the previous backup in the timeline, which means every backup is a full backup.
For information about how to set up a Time Machine like backup read between the lines inside the backitup script file :-)
- Lua
- luafilesystem
- Implement lock mechanism to prevent multiple instances.
- Implement error and/or signal handling for rsync.
- Implement algorithm to delete old backups for saving storage space.
- Implement external configuration file for environment related settings.
- Build in a logger.