Hey, a friend of mine recently told me about a way of performing incremental backups making use of the ubiquitous tar tool. I was really impressed that such a useful thing could be hidden there without people talking about it (or is it just me who didn’t know? anyway …) Here are my two cents on how you can tailor a script that will backup a directory incrementally sending the snapshots to S3 and then recovering later. In the end, I also include restic as an alternative. Goal The ultimate ...
