{"id":7939,"date":"2004-09-22T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-09-22T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/22\/easy-automated-snapshot-style-backups-with-linux-and-rsync\/"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"easy-automated-snapshot-style-backups-with-linux-and-rsync","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/09\/22\/easy-automated-snapshot-style-backups-with-linux-and-rsync\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Automated Snapshot-Style Backups with Linux and Rsync"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Mike Rubel<\/a> has an excellent article<\/a> that explains how to use rsync for making snapshot backups.<\/p>\n

All the theory, examples, script listings, and references to other places are there. Great stuff!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Mike Rubel has an excellent article that explains how to use rsync for making snapshot backups. All the theory, examples, script listings, and references to other places are there. Great stuff!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-7939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8009,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2004\/10\/06\/copying-files-to-remote-destinations-with-bells-and-whistles\/","url_meta":{"origin":7939,"position":0},"title":"Copying files to remote destinations. 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