Backup policy

[robbo007]

Hi,
Does this create a "full" backup at any stage? In the case of a disaster and I need to restore everything would I have to restore every incremental copy in order to get everything back?
Thanks,

[psmanek]

Every copy is a full copy. Only new files are incremental, every other file is linked to other copy. So when you restore it will copy all files.

[flyisland]

@robbo007, this script utilizes rsync --link-dest to implement incremental backups, ensuring that each backup, represented by the date-time folder, is a full copy.

You could refer to this article https://digitalis.io/blog/linux/incremental-backups-with-rsync-and-hard-links/ for more information about the hard-links.