Re: using rsync with scripts (cronjobs) and automated backups

with how to get started would be great!!! Thanks ahead of time for the help!!! You may have a look at http://www.pollux.franken.de/backup/rsback/ This is a Perl script just for this purpose. There you'll find some links to related information or other tools, too. hjb :-? -- Hans-Juergen

Re: Incremental Backups

at 17.02.2005 2:24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read the following hint at: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/#Incremental mv backup.0 backup.1 rsync -a --delete --link-dest=../backup.1 source_directory/ backup.0/ I simply want to maintain a dated backup of a server so that I could

Re: Backup with rsync until one month

always, and so i can get the all files untill an one month old version of the file. Is it possible? Regardes Have a look at http://www.pollux.franken.de/hjb/rsback/ That will do the trick. hjb :-? -- Hans-Juergen Beie Phone: +49 911 396628 / +49 173 3546274 Fax: +49 911 396663 mailto:[EMAIL

Re: good snapshot solution

ch. It was made to handle configurations for different backup scenarios more flexibly. I'm using it on two production servers sharing some trees of the backup repositories (read-only mounted via nfs) with Samba. see http://www.pollux.franken.de/hjb/rsback hjb :-? -- Hans-Juergen Beie Phone: +49 91

Re: rsync as a bakcup tool and the case of rotated logs

the same as > /backup/current/syslog.137.gz, rsback is a frontend to rsync (disclaimer: I'm the author ;-) which allows to make rotating backup archives by hard-linking. See http://www.pollux.franken.de/hjb/rsback hjb :-? -- Hans-Juergen Beie Phone: +49 911 396628 / +49 173 3546274 Fax: