On 12/03/2013 07:12 PM, Richard Pieri wrote: > Jerry Feldman wrote: >> rsnapshot can run on BSD. It uses the rsync --link-dest feature. You >> generally have an hourly.0 directory. When rsnapshot runs it renames > > Really? That may have changed in the past few years. Used to be that > rsnapshot used GNU cp's --link option to copy hourly.1 to hourly.0 > after rotation. Regardless, you still need a wrapper to handle that > rotation. It has used --link-dest as long as I have been using it. In the rsnapshot.conf file: # If your version of rsync supports --link-dest, consider enable this. # This is the best way to support special files (FIFOs, etc) cross-platform. # The default is 0 (off). # link_dest 1
I don't remember this being 0 when I first started using it 5 years ago. >> is a perl script. While rsnapshot creates snapshorts, it is really a >> backup system because it creates multiple directories. > > It's not the multiple replicas that make it a backup system. It's the > discrete medium that makes it a backup system. If you put your > snapshots or replicas on the same medium as the original data and that > medium fails or is corrupted or stolen or burns to the ground then you > lose it all, originals and snapshots and replicas all together. > I would agree 100%.. I have always used a separate discrete media. -- Jerry Feldman <[email protected]> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id:3BC1EB90 PGP Key fingerprint: 49E2 C52A FC5A A31F 8D66 C0AF 7CEA 30FC 3BC1 EB90
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