RE: 7 day incremental backup

2005-12-22 Thread C. P.
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Re: 7 day incremental backup

2005-12-21 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2005-12-21 08:49:00 -0800, ed hayes wrote: > I'm new using rsync, and I found the example for "7 day incremental backup". > I got this working, but I've got 1 question: Don't know about that; use rsnapshot instead. Best Martin --

7 day incremental backup

2005-12-21 Thread ed hayes
I'm new using rsync, and I found the example for "7 day incremental backup". I got this working, but I've got 1 question:   "Is there a way to rename the saved/backed up directory?"   Like backup ~/junk but rename the backup directory to ol

Re: mirror combined with 7 day incremental backup

2005-09-19 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:49:30AM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > Hmm, I don't understand what you mean with "7 days worth of inodes". Sorry, my brain slipped a gear there. The inodes are the files, so (as you say) they are not duplicated. The only extra space needed is for the duplicated directo

Re: mirror combined with 7 day incremental backup

2005-09-19 Thread Paul Slootman
On Sat 17 Sep 2005, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 01:27:16PM -0400, Darcy Bangsund wrote: > > I Want to utilize the --delete option for files that no longer exist on > > /mnt/production/ that have been on /mnt/backup/production/ for longer > > then 7 days. > > Your two choices

Re: mirror combined with 7 day incremental backup

2005-09-18 Thread Jason Haar
There's also rsnapshot. Defaults to hourly and 7-day rolling backups, using hard-links to save diskspace (i.e. if files haven't changed from one run to the next). Saves a tonne of diskspace :-) -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax:

Re: mirror combined with 7 day incremental backup

2005-09-18 Thread Hari Krishna Dara
05 13:45:33 -0400 > Subject: Re: mirror combined with 7 day incremental backup > There are some notes at > http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/#Rsyn and I remember > seeing other such approaches (but can't put my finger on them at the > moment). > > Lee C &g

Re: mirror combined with 7 day incremental backup

2005-09-17 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 01:27:16PM -0400, Darcy Bangsund wrote: > I Want to utilize the --delete option for files that no longer exist on > /mnt/production/ that have been on /mnt/backup/production/ for longer > then 7 days. Your two choices are (1) to use --link-dest into a new directory every

Re: mirror combined with 7 day incremental backup

2005-09-17 Thread Darcy Bangsund
wrote: Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to keep a mirror and 7 day incremental backup between to 2 mount points. I want to rsync everything from /mnt/production/ to /mnt/backup/production/ on the same server. Nothing fancy. But , I Want to utilize the --delete option for files that

Re: mirror combined with 7 day incremental backup

2005-09-17 Thread Lee Cullens
/computers/rsync_snapshots/#Rsyn and I remember seeing other such approaches (but can't put my finger on them at the moment). Lee C Darcy Bangsund wrote: Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to keep a mirror and 7 day incremental backup between to 2 mount points. I want to rsync every

Re: mirror combined with 7 day incremental backup

2005-09-17 Thread Lee Cullens
There are some notes at http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/#Rsyn and I remember seeing other such approaches (but can't put my finger on them at the moment). Lee C Darcy Bangsund wrote: Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to keep a mirror and 7 day increment

mirror combined with 7 day incremental backup

2005-09-17 Thread Darcy Bangsund
Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to keep a mirror and 7 day incremental backup between to 2 mount points. I want to rsync everything from /mnt/production/ to /mnt/backup/production/ on the same server. Nothing fancy. But , I Want to utilize the --delete option for files that no l