Re: Recycling directories and backup performance. Was: Re: rsync --link-dest won't link even if existing file is out of date (fwd)

2015-04-16 Thread Ken Chase
How do you handle snapshotting? or do you leave that to the block/fs virtualization layer? /kc On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 01:35:27PM +1200, Henri Shustak said: Our backup procudures have provision for looking back at previous directories, but there is not much to be gained with recycled

Re: Recycling directories and backup performance. Was: Re: rsync --link-dest won't link even if existing file is out of date (fwd)

2015-04-16 Thread Henri Shustak
Our backup procudures have provision for looking back at previous directories, but there is not much to be gained with recycled directories. Without recycling, and after a failure, the latest available backup may not have much in it. Just wanted to point out that LBackup has a number of

Re: Recycling directories and backup performance. Was: Re: rsync --link-dest won't link even if existing file is out of date (fwd)

2015-04-16 Thread Henri Shustak
How do you handle snapshotting? or do you leave that to the block/fs virtualization layer? I am guessing this question is directed at me. Firstly, when I used the word snapshot, I was referring to the snapshot in the LBackup context. It is outlined at the following page

Recycling directories and backup performance. Was: Re: rsync --link-dest won't link even if existing file is out of date (fwd)

2015-04-15 Thread Robert Bell
rsync folks, Henri Shustak henri.shus...@gmail.com wrote: LBackup always starts a new backup snapshot with an empty directory. I have been looking at extending --link-dest options to scan beyond just the previous successful backup to (failed backups / older backups). However, there are all