Tuttology

I finally set up (again) an automatic off-site incremental backup of my dreamhost account.

Last time, after a disk crash, I set up a new linux box and restored everything from the backup; indeed almost everything. I forgot to restore just one thing: the backup scripts

The idea is to sync the remote server files with a local directory and then make an incremental backup on the local computer. Subsequently copy back the archive, having so an historically memory of every changes both on local and remote machine.

Thanks to fullo for checking this stuff.

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