Heck, worst thing you can do is give it a shot. Or, if rsnapshot’s not installed, you can try doing cp -al to see if it does actually copy with hardlinks.

I’ve used rsnapshot on FreeBSD. I performed purely local backups with it: local disk to local disk. So I was curious if the same could be done entirely with Cygwin on Windows? In other words, is the file system support all there for hard links to make this work?

Thanks,

-Clint

Hard links only work on the same filesystem. Rsnapshot’ing to the same local filesystem doesn’t really make any sense– you want to have an ENTIRE backup of a point in time (no matter how long it takes), and then hard links in subsequent backups for when files didn’t change between the backup intervals.

“Backup” is kind of the key part– redundancy! 🙂

Can I ask a noob question? Can you, who have made rsnapshot, be able to treat the current running system as a root snapshot? Because I don't want to make a root or base-line backup and then make others snapshot base on this base-line. It takes time! If you can treat the current system is the root snapshot, all you have to do is make first snapshot base on current system and then base on the first snapshot and so on so 4. On the Internet shop pc there is no important things to care about except the OS itself. Or my home pc, which for game only doesn't need to a root snapshot for system and also doesn't need to Restart-Restore system (like Deep freeze). I want to restore system when there is some apps do "conflic" the other current on my pc (like Rollback of Horizontal Datasys for Windows only).

There is an app run on Mac OS x I know very like rsnapshot name, Paragon Volume Snapshot for Mac OS X, but it has a nice GUI and cost some bucks.  

thanks 😉

And by the way, would you mind if I translated this guide to italian and published it on my website, obviously giving credit to you as the original author? (admitting I find the time to :D)