Due to circumstances I had to look for a new way to backup my home directory. I was using rdiff-backup(1) before, but I wasn't completely satisfied with it. The overhead of incremental data was quite large, especially if you moved files around. But overall it does its job quite well.

However, since a year or so I'm quite charmed of Git, the stupid file content tracker. It's a great tool for software development, but due to its advantages over other VCSs it's also suitable for backing up structures like a user's home directory.