I don't know how the OP manages their backups. I write out a backupname.current symlink pointing to the new backup once it is completed. That is what I use as the --link-dest parameter and what I would restore from. If a backup is aborted in the middle, doesn't happen at all, or fails the symlink isn't changed and the last one that worked is still tagged current.
I also name the rsync target dir backupname.incomplete and rename it to backup.$Date when the backup completes so that there won't be any extra date stamped dirs in the list to affect when it is time to delete old backups and so I won't ever try to restore an incomplete (at lest not without knowing that I am doing so). On 06/26/2018 04:36 PM, Dan Stromberg via rsync wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 12:02 PM, Дугин Сергей via rsync > <rsync@lists.samba.org <mailto:rsync@lists.samba.org>> wrote: > > I am launching a cron bash script that does the following: > > Day 1 > /usr/bin/rsync -aH --link-dest > /home/backuper/.BACKUP/0000009/2018-06-25 root@192.168.1.103:/home/ > /home/backuper/.BACKUP/0000009/2018-06-26 > > Day 2 > /usr/bin/rsync -aH --link-dest > /home/backuper/.BACKUP/0000009/2018-06-26 root@192.168.1.103:/home/ > /home/backuper/.BACKUP/0000009/2018-06-27 > > Day 3 > /usr/bin/rsync -aH --link-dest > /home/backuper/.BACKUP/0000009/2018-06-27 root@192.168.1.103:/home/ > /home/backuper/.BACKUP/0000009/2018-06-28 > > and etc. > > This isn't really what you were asking, but with the "dated directories" > scheme, what happens if one or your machines crashes during a backup? > Don't you end up storing a lot more data in the next successful backup? > > > > -- ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._., Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 Systems Administrator Internet: FutureQuest, Inc. ke...@futurequest.net (work) Orlando, Florida k...@sanitarium.net (personal) Web page: https://sanitarium.net/ PGP public key available on web site. ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,
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