On 5/11/05, Matthew Schumacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > pmb wrote: > Ok, there is a really good way to do this, go look at: > > http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ > > Basically you can have a rotation that only consumes the size of the > data plus change over the rotation period.
I like rdiff-backup myself. Same idea but it already takes care of all the work for you. http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ Part of the Fedora Core 3 Extras packages too. What is it? rdiff-backup backs up one directory to another, possibly over a network. The target directory ends up a copy of the source directory, but extra reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory of that target directory, so you can still recover files lost some time ago. The idea is to combine the best features of a mirror and an incremental backup. rdiff-backup also preserves subdirectories, hard links, dev files, permissions, uid/gid ownership, and modification times. Also, rdiff-backup can operate in a bandwidth efficient manner over a pipe, like rsync. Thus you can use rdiff-backup and ssh to securely back a hard drive up to a remote location, and only the differences will be transmitted. Finally, rdiff-backup is easy to use and settings have sensical defaults. _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
