On Mon 06 Sep 2004, Marten Lehmann wrote:
>
> src="/vrmd/webserver/"
> today=`date +%F`
> #link_dest="[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/vrmd/admin/backup/web/2004-09-05"
> link_dest="../2004-09-05"
> dest="[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/vrmd/admin/backup/web/$today"
> rsync -av -e ssh --delete --link-dest=$link_dest $src $dest
>
> in 2004-09-05 (on the dest-server) is the directory with the backup from
> yesterday. Of course, I only want changed files to be copied. I thought
> that link-dest is the right thing for this, so that each file from
> /vrmd/webserver is either hardlinked to the already backuped file in
> 2004-09-05 or it will be copied to 2004-09-06. But as it seems,
> link-dest doesn't work through ssh (or remote in general?) but only at
> local systems. I don't have enough space for local backups, there's also
> no possiblity to add another drive in a 1HE 19" server and I can't mount
> in an NFS-device, because this doesn't work through the firewall. Is
> --link-dest thought to work with a host:path parameter?
You're trying to make a sort of snapshot per day, where common files
across days are hardlinked?
Try this:
rsync -av -e ssh --delete --link-dest=$link_dest --compare-dest=$link_dest $src
$dest
i.e. add the --compare-dest option...
I use this daily to backup to an archive of 1.4TB (retaining 3-6 days
from about 120 systems).
Only difference is that I initiate the rsync from the backup server,
instead of to it. That way the backup server is guaranteed to have only
one rsync session running at a time, which is useful because this (here)
is quite disk-intensive, and having more than one simultaneous rsync
session would cause disk thrashing.
Paul Slootman
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