I notice you didn't got any replies yet. I will try to provide you some answers.
> The actual question: Does this make sense, or is there some danger in hard-linking into an active rdiff-backup archive? Hard-linking is not an issue for rdiff-backup. As long as the files are not modified afterwards, it's not an issue. > Second question: is it possible to run rdiff-backup on a subset of the total more frequently, but with the same target archive? It's not possible backup only subset of files with rdiff-backup, but it sound like a nice feature to get implemented ! ;-) Would be nice to hear back from you once you completed your setup ! -- Patrik Dufresne On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 7:39 PM, meeotch < rdiff-backup-fo...@backupcentral.com> wrote: > I'm new to rdiff-backup, and I've got a couple questions about a potential > backup scheme. Background: I'm using a package (snapraid) on my server > that protects its data against bit-rot & drive failure. I periodically > rsync my (windows) laptop to that (linux) server in order to have a bit-rot > protected clone of the laptop. However, snapraid isn't really meant for > use on files that are constantly changing (for instance, mail files, > Firefox profile, etc.), so these snapshots don't happen that frequently. > > I'd like to use rdiff-backup to do nightly backups of the laptop, for the > versioning & accidental delete protection. The backup target would be a > non-snapraid-protected area on the same server. But rather than maintain > two full copies of all the data, it would be great if the overlaps were > consolidated using hard links. So the plan would be: rdiff-backup nightly > to a "master" archive (non-snapraid), then snapshot the rdiff-backup master > weekly, using rsync --link-dest, into a snapraid-protected area. > > The actual question: Does this make sense, or is there some danger in > hardlinking into an active rdiff-backup archive? > > Second question: is it possible to run rdiff-backup on a subset of the > total more frequently, but with the same target archive? For instance, a > nightly backup of everything, then an hourly backup of certain critical > files/dirs. My grasp of rsync --include/exclude filters is marginal, but > my gut says that some special magic is required to keep the hourly backup > from blowing away excluded files (while correctly deleting files removed > from the "hourly" areas). > > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > |This was sent by mi...@houseofpain.org via Backup Central. > |Forward SPAM to ab...@backupcentral.com. > +---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 >
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