On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:49:30AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
Hmm, I don't understand what you mean with 7 days worth of inodes.
Sorry, my brain slipped a gear there. The inodes are the files, so (as
you say) they are not duplicated. The only extra space needed is for
the duplicated directory
combined with 7 day incremental backup
There are some notes at
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/#Rsyn and I remember
seeing other such approaches (but can't put my finger on them at the
moment).
Lee C
Darcy Bangsund wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to figure out how
There's also rsnapshot. Defaults to hourly and 7-day rolling backups,
using hard-links to save diskspace (i.e. if files haven't changed from
one run to the next). Saves a tonne of diskspace :-)
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Hello,
I'm trying to figure out how to keep a mirror and 7 day incremental
backup between to 2 mount points.
I want to rsync everything from /mnt/production/ to
/mnt/backup/production/ on the same server.
Nothing fancy.
But ,
I Want to utilize the --delete option for files that no longer
There are some notes at
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/#Rsyn and I remember
seeing other such approaches (but can't put my finger on them at the
moment).
Lee C
Darcy Bangsund wrote:
Hello,
I'm trying to figure out how to keep a mirror and 7 day incremental
backup
I forgot to mention that in playing around with differential/incremental
rsync approaches, I came across a tool called rdiff-backup (uses
librsync) that takes a very efficient approach. I just started checking
it out.
Lee Cullens wrote:
There are some notes at
That's right. I forgot about rdiff...I'll look into it and see if it
applies for me at all...
Thanx Lee.
darcy
Lee Cullens wrote:
I forgot to mention that in playing around with
differential/incremental rsync approaches, I came across a tool called
rdiff-backup (uses librsync) that takes
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 01:27:16PM -0400, Darcy Bangsund wrote:
I Want to utilize the --delete option for files that no longer exist on
/mnt/production/ that have been on /mnt/backup/production/ for longer
then 7 days.
Your two choices are (1) to use --link-dest into a new directory every
