Re: differential/incremental /var/log backups

2003-07-30 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 12:08:15PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > So far I can think of two solutions, but I like neither: > - backing up WHOLE /var/log every day (level 0 each time) - this means >larger backups > - changing traditional rotation (file.number.gz) to something like >file.ye

Re: differential/incremental /var/log backups

2003-07-24 Thread Marcin Sochacki
On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 12:08:15PM +0200, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > So far I can think of two solutions, but I like neither: > - backing up WHOLE /var/log every day (level 0 each time) - this means >larger backups > - changing traditional rotation (file.number.gz) to something like >file.ye

differential/incremental /var/log backups

2003-07-24 Thread Marcin Owsiany
Hi! Consider the following scenario: On sunday, you have the following files: syslog (from sunday) syslog.0(from saturday) syslog.1.gz (from friday) syslog.2.gz (from thursday) Those files get backed up in a level zero backup. Then, on monday, you have the following files (note the shi