Hello Again
>> I need to backup data from a scientific instrument. The problem is that the > instrument has limited space, so >> >> data has to be moved from the instrument onto other drive. From time to > time, the old data needs to be copied >> back to the instrument. Rdiff-backup is handy because regular > "cp" command will restore the latest version of the datafile. >> Thus users can be given read-access to the backup and they can restore data > they need by themselves. > > The above confuses me. You say the old data needs to copied back, but > then you say rdiff-backup is handy because it allows the latest version > to be copied back. Not sure I am following the logic:) Sorry for not being clear about what I would like to do. Basically, I need an easy access to files which are deleted from the system. The files which are present on the system at the backup time and were deleted before a subsequent backup can be easily found (using find) and restored with a cp command. Files which were deleted from the source directory before the last backup are also deleted from the "mirror" but are present in the rdiff-backup history. I do not see an easy way to browse or search the deleted files by creation date or file name. I see rdiff-backup --list-at-time ??D out-dir/subdir which will work if I know the date when the file was created. Is this my only option? > > Still not sure I am following correctly. Still, why not move the data > from the instrument to a directory on the hard drive and then > rdiff-backup from that directory to another directory? Ideally, old data do not change only new data are created. But uses sometime do stuff to old data and I have to keep track in backup of what they do. It is possible that they changed old data by mistake or on purpose. thus, moving data to a different drive does not always work. If old data gets modified, I need to create a "revision". It is rare, but might happen. I thught rdiff-backup will keep the revision history for me. Should I consider CVS revision control system as a backup tool? it works well on text files, not sure if it good for binary data. in this scenario, new data will be simply added to the repository. The old data gets revisions (if it happens) and I backup the CVS repository . CVS repository can be searched for filenames so the old deleted files can be found... The CVS route does not sound correct to me, though. Do you have any thoughts or suggestions? Am I talking nonsense again? Thanks ZF _______________________________________________ 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
