Introduction It is a widely accepted pattern in IT business to make regular backups of important data. I decided to make a weekly one of my /home. Since within a week usually most filed won’t change I decided for an incremental backup, to only include new data. In the past I used different tools to archive that. rsyn-incr Durin my time at university, I used a small Shellscript, rsync-incr to run by an hourly cronjob of root to backup my Uni folder so I could not accidently delete it.