rsync-time-backup VS Rsnapshot

Hi Hacker News,

I'm excited to share my recent project, where I took on the challenge of porting a popular but untested 600+ line Bash script to Python. The outcome is [`rsync-time-machine.py`](https://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 backups of files and directories to the destination of your choice.

The tool is designed to work on Linux, macOS, and Windows (via WSL or Cygwin). Its advantage over Time Machine is its flexibility - it can backup from/to any filesystem and works on any platform. You can also backup to a Truecrypt drive without any issues.

Unlike the original Bash script, `rsync-time-machine.py` is fully tested. It has no external dependencies (only requires Python ≥3.7), and it is fully compatible with [`rsync-time-backup`](https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup). It offers pretty terminal output and is fully typed.

Key features include:

* Each backup is in its own folder named after the current timestamp.

I'm excited to share my recent project, where I took on the challenge of porting a popular but untested 600+ line Bash script to Python. The outcome is rsync-time-machine.py, a Python implementation of the rsync-time-backup script. It provides Time Machine-style backups using rsync and creates incremental backups of files and directories to the destination of your choice.

Here's a script that someone made that simplifies the setup. I haven't used this script, but it looks pretty good: https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup

https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup or https://torsion.org/borgmatic/ could come in handy.

If you are interested, you can check it out here: https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup

I do most of my backups using some version of this script to (efficiently) keep a long backup history: https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup

Here is a scripted version. Honestly, I’d rather roll my own but it’s still helpful: https://github.com/laurent22/rsync-time-backup

Two things I want to try this month are:

https://mastodon.social/@chromakode/110936177254839251

https://rsnapshot.org/

I'm using rsnapshot. It's based on rsync. It's fully automated and I make daily and monthly backups backup to my NAS. The biggest benefit of rsnapshot is that it uses hardlinks. So only changed files are backed up. It doesn't have a GUI though, you have to set a configuration file.

For backups, I'm using rsnapshot.

It's been a while but I think rsnapshot is what you're looking for.

The description sounds like it does largely the same job as rsnapshot (https://rsnapshot.org/). What does yours do differently from rsnapshot?