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One of the worst experiences you can have as a computer operator is to realize you (or something else) just did something and wiped out your files. The purpose of this article is to show you how to automatically backup your files often and automatically. I use this setup to backup my documents every hour (I save more often then that). This gives me hourly versions of all my files I am working on. It even protects me from accidentally saving over an important document (at least to the last hour).
Install Rsync-incr
You could do everything you need with Rsync... but our goal here is easy and automatic. Rsync-incr is a nice shell script that uses Rsync to do incremental backups, surrounding it with an easy interface. Win Win.. The stability of Rsync, with an easy to use interface.
