Recently, I was introduced to rsnapshot, which is a great tool for simple backup. It uses rsync to backup files. And it also uses hard links, so it can provide hourly 'snapshots' while it stores unchanged files only once. I wanted to use rsnapshot for backing up the files I have on my website at my hosting providers' server, but sadly enough, my hosting provider doesn't provide rsync support - damn cheap hosting ;-(.
Luckily I do have ssh access to my files, and using sshfs you can work around the missing rsync on the server. (Probably much slower than with rsync, and I am also unable to keep the permissions of the files, but hey - it's better than nothing.)
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