On 12/28/2011 11:30 AM, Darrin Chandler wrote: ....
This sounds like a job for rsnapshot: essentailly point-in-time snapshots on top of rsync, using hard links of unchanged files for space and speed. With some additional shell scripting + cron you could have a really nice scheme to keep 15 minute snaps for the last few days, then daily for a while, then weekly.
this is what the --link-dest option of rsync does -- hard links of unchanged files to a new directory. Very sweet feature. There are probably a dozen "projects" which were obsoleted by the addition of the --link-dest option...
Nick.
