discremental

This set of scripts is yet another rsync based backup solution. It uses the --link-dest option to create hard links to files that have not changed. Using this technique, each run results in a *full backup* even though the backup process used is incremental (only the files that changed since the last backup).

This paradigm is sometimes called
forever incremental backups. This utility exists because I wrote it a long time ago in reaction to the slow, cumbersome pace of the dirvish project. It has been in production for years and slowly features have been added.

The snapshots--called boxes--of files and folders are arranged by date and time. The boxes are stored in vaults (one for each server) and the vaults are stored in a bank (the top level folder).

The key difference between this and other utilities: discremental is a few bash scripts that wrap around rsync. They are meant to make using rsync easier--not replace or hide it from the user.