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[Tim Soderstrom <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's still pretty bare but I've setup a basic rsync plugin which 
supports hardlinking. I had to do some interesting things in regards to 
looking at previous backup-sets and could use some feedback if anyone 
wants to take a look:

https://github.com/m00dawg/holland/tree/master/plugins/holland.backup.rsync

Hardlinking seems to work - it basically sets --link-dest to the 
previous backup set if it exsts and if hardlinking is enabled.

Hideously lacking is the ability to setup exclusions, and I'm not sure 
if I should just offer flags/extended_flags options or be nice and make 
certain features explicit (such as --one-file-system). Also not sure if 
I should support --exclude-file= or just use the --exclude flag and 
iterate over a list (similar to how mysqldump works as I recall). I 
should also probably support remote sources (I don't have a need for 
that in my case but I'm sure lots of folks would).

Tim