Re: rsync incremental backup question

for incremental backups you'd use something like dump/restore or maybe cpio or tar but not rsync.

you'd probably want to use rsync to build something like the time machine with hard links.

further information: dump and restore manpages, the time machine wiki page.

On Fri 20. Feb 2026 at 14:58, Shadrock Uhuru <niyalevi@gmail.com> wrote:

hi everyone
i'm using rsync incremental backup and
i'm trying to understand which backups are full and which are
incremental,
my backup policy is 7 daily 4 weekly 12 monthly 1 yearly backup
for the daily backups           
monday is a full backup
and tuesday to sunday are incremental.
is that the same for my weekly and monthly backups
where the first week is a full backup 
and the following weeks are  incremental backup of the previous week ?

shadrock