Hello all,
I've found a simple, rsync-based trick to emulate the "rotating snapshots" feature found on some file servers, and hope that members of this group will find it useful and/or interesting: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ Snapshots are (or rather, appear to be) full backups of a system taken at regular intervals, available directly to users through a special read-only system directory. When users accidentally delete or overwrite important files, or find themselves in need of an old version, they can copy from the snapshots without any sysadmin help. Since I first saw the labor savings that automatic, rotating snapshots provide (relative to restore from incremental tape backups), I've been searching for a way to mimic them on my home Linux machine. Rsync gave me a way to deal with the difficult part--making what are really incremental backups appear to be full ones. Thanks in advance for any feedback or suggestions-- Mike -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
