On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 16:39, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:08:18 +0100, Ward Poelmans wrote: > >> You should take a look at rsnapshot ( http://rsnapshot.org/ ). I use >> it and it works perfectly. But it's written in perl and not bash, i'm >> afraid. > > That misses the point. This isn't really about making backups, it's about > learning to write shell scripts. Backing up is just the project that Dale > has chosen for this first effort, at least that's how I read it.
Sorry, i've read the original message a bit too fast. But it's still worth to take a look at how rsnapshot works if you want to write anything yourself. I think that the combination of rsync and hardlinks is quite effective and fast. Ward
