Greetings,

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Benjamin Smith <lists@benjamindsmith.com> wrote:
Years ago, I set up a backup tool that wrapped rsync. It has faithfully and
reliably backed up a dozen hosts and too many TB of data to mention, offsite,
automatically saving as many backup points as disk space allows.
You're certainly welcome to try it!

http://www.effortlessis.com/thisisnotbackupbuddy/

It works on an "ascending powers" basis, EG:

1 day ago,
2 days ago,
4 days ago,
8 days ago,
16 days ago...
....
until out of disk space.

=)

<grin|smile|whatever> it is a criminal offence (in free software world) to hide this gem from the world for all this long. ;)

Regards,

Rajagopal