rsync incremental as a get

I'm trying to setup a backup script on Ubuntu. Every day I want to copy my local source directory to a backup directory on a remote server uniquely named with the date. (e.g., backup-jan1/, backup-jan2/, etc) It should store a mirror of the earliest state and use difference files to recreate the new backup points.

This is pretty simple with rsync.

I'd like to do a nightly backup of some things I'm working on and push them to my home server from a friend's VPS. Incremental would be nice because he's great at fucking things up.I've never used rsync and scp will take way too long to do every night, so I'd like an automatic back up nightly and I'd like to store only 3-7 days.

I'm looking for a cloud backup provider that uses rsync. I have used rsync.net for many years but their pricing model isn't keeping up with the rest of the market and I'm looking at several tens of gigabytes of storage.

I need to make a backup on my external hard drive. I looked both at rsync and incremental tar. The problem is that I want my backup to be compressed. With rsync I can only compress the data transfer, but not the result.

I am backing up a networked server via SSH. Unfortunately, I can't seem to figure out how to get root access to the networked server with Rsync. I am using the following command to perform the backup:

sudo rsync -av ubuntu@*******:/ /media/backup1/ubuntubackup

Some directories come up as permission denied.

I've been trying to make a three stage backup with stage 0 being a full monthly back up, stage 1 being a weekly backup, and stage 2 being a daily backup. I've been trying very hard to use rsync for this but sorting files by date is proving to be problematic.

I am trying to do a backup from Linux to USB Pen Drive with rsync each day and I take home the Pen Drive at night.

What do you use for transferring files from one to another server?So far i was using scp command,but i see rsync function basically same,except i heard how rsync copies files in realtime.Also is it possible to insert password in command(for automated backup purposes) or that can be arranged only by using ssh keys?

I have been following various other tutorials and blog posts on setting up a Ubuntu machine as a backup "server" (I'll call it a server, but it's just running Ubuntu desktop) that I push new files to with rsync.