On 01/23/2013 02:15:06 AM, Voelker, Bernhard wrote: > Kevin Korb wrote: > > On 01/22/13 18:12, Kevin Korb wrote: > > > That is the old way that pre-dates --link-dest. Instead of cp - > al > > > > daily.02 daily.01 you can do a mkdir daily.01 then an rsync ... > > > --link-dest=../daily.02 daily.01
> I'm using a similar script on some desktop PCs. The problem is, > that - due to the fact that it's a desktop PC - the backup can > be killed during a shutdown ... leaving the last backup uncomplete. > That's not a problem per se, but with the next backup, the missing > files are copied freshly from the source and thus exhausting backup > space. > Therefore, the script I'm using rotates the snapshot *after* a > successful run of rsync. The solution is to use --link-dest twice, or more, to older versions of the backup. If the file is not in the most recent backup then the older version(s) are hardlinked to. Regards, Karl <[email protected]> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
