LBackup probably will meet your needs. Also, Link-Backup may come close. Hope this helps.
Disclaimer: I am a developer on the LBackup project. Matthew Monaco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Does anyone have a good distributed backup strategy? I've been revising >mine for a year or so now and always realize there's some hole or >another in it. I get the feeling to do it exactly the way I want it >needs to be complex, but I'm looking for something elegant. > >My data consists of some of these representative folders: > >.mozilla >Documents >Pictures >.ssh >Music >bin > >And these devices: > >My main (linux) computer >A share on a windows computer >An ext3 external disk attached to my main computer >A remote linux computer (ssh) >And some usb flash drives > >At the root of each device should be an up-to-date copy of my data. But >for some devices like the usb sticks, I don't want to include music. > >I'd like to be able to take advantage of hardlinks on the devices that >support them to have snapshots. > >Each device should have a folder called SNAPSHOTS (or something) with a >list of folders (SNAPSHOTS/$date) containing either snapshots on devices >that support links and backup data on devices that don't. > >For devices that don't support hardlinks I'd like to keep backups of >some data but not others. > >For devices like the usb sticks I'd like to avoid keeping up backups of >some data I'd otherwise want to backup. > >For data like Music, I don't want to make deletions, from the large >devices like the external drive. > >For data like my firefox profile I'd like to have a full backup in each >of the SNAPSHOT/$date directory on devices without hardlinks. But I >don't want the Cache folder to show up in any of these. > > > >I'm sure there's more but I'm tired (and frustrated) right now. > >Thanks for your suggestions! > >Matt >-- >Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. >To unsubscribe or change options: >https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo//rsync >Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
