I have a question for someone with experience with rsync backups. I am using rsync for incremental backups. I am backing up from one hard drive to another: backing up directories under / on one hard drive to /mnt/backup/squeeze/backup.0 on the second hard drive. On the second hard drive I am using rsync with the hard link option (link-dest=) to link backup.0 to the previous backup (backup.1).
I checked the amount of space used on the backups on /mnt/backup/squeeze/ Each backup from backup.0 to backup.7 under squeeze is 12G. The total for squeeze is 17G. All the backups are hard linked and I am not making much for changes. Why am I adding 5G? Thanks Backup Script #!/bin/bash mount /mnt/backup cd /mnt/backup/squeeze/ rm -rf backup.7 mv backup.6 backup.7 mv backup.5 backup.6 mv backup.4 backup.5 mv backup.3 backup.4 mv backup.2 backup.3 mv backup.1 backup.2 mv backup.0 backup.1 cd / rsync -am --delete-after --filter="merge /root/scripts/filter- rule" --delete-excluded \ --link-dest=/mnt/backup/squeeze/backup.1 \ / /mnt/backup/squeeze/backup.0 umount /mnt/backup Filter rule: - /home/joe/downloads/ - /home/joe/.local/share/Trash/ + /home/ + /etc/ + /root/ + /boot/ + /usr/ + /usr/local/ - /usr/* - /* _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
