Robin Bowes Wrote: > > So, what happens when you realise that you deleted a file just before > you ran rsync that you didn't mean to delete and that you'd really > like > to get back?
I yell like a stuck pig, or I look at the other N,000 albums in my collection and cope with it. Your point is well taken of course. I make a big investment in my alertness at that moment before the "enter" key is pressed (e.g. no scotch before that keystroke). There is also something to be said about the nature of the filesystem. With scarcely any exceptions, the music files grow monotonically, and deletions are usually the consequence of having moved something around or having re-tagged something. Hence as far as my music collection is concerned, I'm pretty sure I've made a stable marriage with rsync. With data of a different nature, my concerns shift, which leads us to... > Sure, rsync is cool, but you're not really making a useful backup using > it like you are. > > Have a look at rsnapshot [1] - I think you'll like it. > > 1. http://www.rsnapshot.org/ > > R. Thanks! The multi-user flavor of that (root password need not be involved) makes it pretty suggestive for a multi-user system. There is a "learning curve--hit the next topic" tension in modernity that sometimes forces me to choose something like rsync rather than the next step up the chain. Personal on-topic recommendations are the typical stimulant for me to go ahead and make that next step (which is how I replaced a ghastly cp -R whatever command with rsync). And now if your tip bears fruit (it's in an O'Reilly so we're on our way), then my friend shall hear back from *me*. Unix tennis is a lovely game. Cheers, Ariel -- trebejo ------------------------------------------------------------------------ trebejo's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=730 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22533 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
