On Tue, 21 Mar 2006, Ahmed Ndaula wrote:
> and making it zipped before being transferred which I will resolve
> shortly.
I'm not sure how easy that might be with rsync - especially if you want
snapshots of your system which are efficient on space (e.g hourly or daily
or weekly etc...). rsync with the '--link-dest' switch, if I'm not
mistaken, uses hard links to efficiently store snapshots of your system at
particular times.
This means that despite the fact that you, say, have 5 snapshots of your
system, the only space these 5 snapshots need is the space of one
(**uncompressed**) full version plus the space needed to store all files
that have changed in between the snapshots (still uncompressed).
As was previously posted a while ago, rnsnapshot (www.rsnapshot.org) will
do this for you quite easily. However, to have zipped transfers and to
have your files on the backup device stored in a compressed format, you
might want to try a combination of tar + gzip. Take a look at
http://storm.cfi.co.ug/avsbs/ and see if it might be an option. :-)
(Sorry for the [shameless] plug!)
Cheers,
Gerald.
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