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Time Machine style backup with rsync.

7 mentions on Hacker News by 6 people: 2 stories, 5 comments · first 2013-10-27 · latest 2026-02-02

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  1. I've been using a bash encapsulation of this for a long time, works great. https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup
    comment by hughc · 2026-02-02 · in Time Machine-style backups with rsync (2018)
  2. …s://github.com/basnijholt/rsync-time-machine.py ), a Python implementation of the rsync-time-backup ( https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup ) script. It provides Time Machine-style backups using rsync and creates incremental…
    comment by basnijholt · 2025-02-08 · in Python Port of 600 Line Bash Script: rsync-time-machine.py for Rsync Backups
  3. …/github.com/basnijholt/rsync-time-machine.py ), a Python implementation of the [`rsync-time-backup`]( https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup ) script. It provides Time Machine-style backups using rsync and creates incremental…
    comment by basnijholt · 2023-05-13 · in Python Port of 600 Line Bash Script: rsync-time-machine.py for Rsync Backups
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    Time Machine style backup with rsync in 540 lines of code
    story by terminalhealth · 2019-06-12 · 5 comments
  5. Excellent rsync-time-backup for local machine, backing up etc and home to external disk: https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup Duply for servers, keeping backups on S3: http://duply.net/ Cron does daily DB dumps so Duply stores…
    comment by binaryapparatus · 2017-07-07 · in Ask HN: How do you backup your linux system?
  6. Rsync time backup This script offers Time Machine-style backup using rsync. https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup > What do you hope to build this month? There are a few open issues, pull requests and todos. One example is an…
    comment by laurent123456 · 2016-10-03 · in Ask HN: Who needs contributors? (October 2016)
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    Time-Machine-style backup with rsync
    story by plessthanpt05 · 2013-10-27 · 50 comments