On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 01:37:22PM -0500, Steve Dutky wrote: > Dear All, > > I need to backup a directory with multiple large files of the form > snapshot/ foo-yymmddhhMMSS.log which are snapshots of foo.log. > > Conceptually, what I would like to do is for each file > > ln -s snapshot/foo-yymmddhhMMSS.log intermediate/foo.log > > rdiff-backup intermediate backup > > Can anyone suggest a sane way of doing this? I'm mounting snapshot > across a network and I would like to avoid unnecessarily copying > files.
Hello Steve, I am trying to understand how "ln -s" will offer reduced bandwidth utilization over something like: rsync -a snapshot/foo-yymmddhhMMSS.log intermediate/foo.log rdiff-backup intermediate backup or cp snapshot/foo-yymmddhhMMSS.log intermediate/foo.log rdiff-backup intermediate backup Either way the data has to cross the network, right? Also, I can see using a single 'foo.log' to save having to figure out what the latest log file if you restore, but not for saving disk space. Assuming each daily log is new and different, rdiff-backup will just save the whole file each day, just like it would if you copied over a new file every day and kept them all on hand. I assume I am just misunderstanding what you are trying to do. Best, Chuck _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
