Found a nice utility for daily backups, a port from Plan9’s fabled dumpfs called pdumpfs. It does directory-based incremental backups after creating a baseline, stores them in a /backups/2006/09/12/directory-style path and is easy as hell to use:

pdumpfs /home/name /backup > /backup/log 2> /backup/errlog

In my case, I set up a cronjob to do exactly that and /backup is actually a NFS mount on a newly minted Solaris 10 fileserver on which I will have more later.