On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 11:06:10 PM Erik Christiansen via luv-main wrote: > On 17.12.15 21:33, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > > There are a variety of backup systems that start with rsync and manage > > trees of links. It's not difficult to write your own, rsync the > > files, run "cp -al" to make a copy with hard links and use today's > > date in the directory name, and then delete backup directories that > > are too old. > > I'm not grokking the benefit of doing the rsync _and_ a "cp -al". I just > include -aH in my rsync options, the -H to preserve hard links. Seems to > work.
rsync copies all the files. Then you do something like the following to preserve a version of that tree before you do the next rsync. cp -al current 2015-12-18 -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
