Re: restoring incremental backups

2005-06-12 Thread Raphael Jaffey
Rework the script using --link-dest= rather than --backup and --backup-dir. This way a directory for each day of the week will contain an exact (complete) snapshot from the corresponding day of the tree(s) you're backing up. Unchanged files share storage on the backup server via multiple hard lin

Re: --link-dest / --hard-links problem

2005-04-25 Thread Raphael Jaffey
I'm now using rsync-HEAD-20050424-0034GMT and everything seems to be working properly as near as I can tell. Thanks! At 5:44 PM -0700 4/23/05, Wayne Davison wrote: On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 06:46:23PM -0500, Raphael Jaffey wrote: Should this be OK or is the most recent "bleeding edge&qu

Re: --link-dest / --hard-links problem

2005-04-23 Thread Raphael Jaffey
;s when I discovered the problem I reported to the list. I've dropped back to 2.5.7 for the time being, but I'll be happy to upgrade to 2.6.4 with the patch installed manually if it's the right thing to do. Can you advise? Thanks, Rafe Quoting Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTE

--link-dest / --hard-links problem

2005-04-23 Thread Raphael Jaffey
I've looked around for a bug report on this problem and haven't seen one, so I apologize if this has already been discussed. I have a homegrown script which uses rsync to maintain daily backups of roughly twenty Redhat Linux systems running RH 7.2, 7.3, AS 3, and AS 4. As there are files with mul