On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, Kshitiz wrote:
> Dear Friends
>
> Can anyone help me write a script for incremental backup using rsync to
> create multiple restore-point-backup that can be easily restored?
>
> I feel a full backup once in 400 days, with hourly incremental, daily
> incremental and weekly incremental backup being rotated in a way in
> which 1 full backup followed by 24 hourly incremental backups,
> interspersed with 7 daily incremental backups and 5 weekly incremental
> backups may be protection enough for my data. What is the you all's
> expert opinion? Kindly suggest a better methodology please.
>
> Would it be better if these backups are compressed and stored in tar
> format? Kindly guide please.
>
> Regards and thank you all in advance Kshitiz
Why reinvent the wheel ? Look at rsnapshot. Been using it for a couple of
years now.
regards,
Sharukh.
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