Re: [SLUG] Re: Backup notes from Mary's talk (28 Nov)

[Alex Samad]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 11:14:24AM +1100, Michael Chesterton wrote:
>
> On 29/11/2008, at 9:59 AM, Mary Gardiner wrote:
>
>> On 2008-11-28, Michael Chesterton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Very minor nitpick, rsync can save older data, and put them in
>>> whatever dir you want.
>>>
>>> before rdiff-backup i used to use rsync --backup --backup-dir=$date-
>>> based-dir
>>
>> Thanks for that: I am guessing from the rsync man page though that it
>> isn't particularly careful to only store the differences and therefore
>> may take up more space?
>
> Right, if a file has changed, it copies the unmodified file to -- 
> backup-dir
> then syncs the file. If a file hasn't changed, it doesn't get copied to 
> --backup-dir.

this is the framework I use

        # Latest backup goes into  "$DSTB/$BNAME"
        # Last backup -1 goes into "$DSTB/$BNAME-1"
        # Last backup -x goes into "$DSTB/$BNAME-x"

        OPT="-aS --delete --link-dest=$DSTB/$BNAME-1"
        if [ -r "${0/sh/exclude}" ]
        then
                EXCL="--exclude-from=${0/sh/exclude}"
        fi

        for x in $( seq $NUMB -1 2 )
        do
            if [ -d "$DSTB/$BNAME-$(( $x - 1 ))" ]
            then
                #echo "move [$DSTB/$BNAME-$(( $x -1 ))] to \
[$DSTB/$BNAME-$x]"
                mv "$DSTB/$BNAME-$(( $x - 1 ))" "$DSTB/$BNAME-$x"
            #else
                #echo "[$DSTB/$BNAME-$(( $x -1 ))] doesn't exist"
            fi
        done

        [ ! -d "$DSTB/$BNAME" ] && mkdir "$DSTB/$BNAME"

        if [ ! -d "$DSTB/$BNAME-1" ]
        then
            cp -al "$DSTB/$BNAME" "$DSTB/$BNAME-1"
        fi

        rsync $OPT $EXCL "$SRC" "$DSTB/$BNAME"


lets me keep $NUMB previous version.  so for my homealex backup dir I
have 

homealex
homealex-1
homealex-2
homealex-<number of days I want to go back>



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