On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 02:37:08PM -0700, Danny Howard wrote: > All this great discussion got me researchinng. I haven't tried this > out but it looks like rsnapshot integrates a lot of features like this > into a single configurable, cronable script. It is in ports as well. > > A lot of systems make use of cp -al ... well, for us FreeBSD people that > means gcp from coreutils. > > rsnapshot looks like a lightweight, OS/FS-portable method of building > rotating filesystem-wide snapshots via hardlinks, but can be made to > operate on limited sets of directories, etc. It can create local > snaphots of remote directories, but not, apparently, remote copies of > local directories. One trick I gleaned from > http://burd.info/gary/2003/03/snapshot-backup-using-rsync-and-ssh.html > is to invoke rsync with --rsync-path which points to a script which > performs maintenence functions and then passes off to rsync proper, so > you could probably set up a client-triggered rsnapshot configuration if > you were, say, doing backups of a Windows laptop client. :) > > -danny
That sounds pretty cool - probably better than my homebrewed scripts :-) I will have to check it out. Cheers, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"