On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 01:43:01PM +0200, Esteban Dugueperoux wrote:
> As I want back up on DAT tapes I would like to have a full backup and
> after some incremental backup with differences (modified or added files)
> from latest backup (full or incremental backup) and not backup of olds
> modif
On Thursday 17 February 2005 02:24, [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 ba
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 12:20:57PM -0600, Chris McKeever wrote:
> so the chain goes
>
> hardlink a mirror directory to a new folder
> rsync live data to a mirror directory
> deleted files between the mirror/live data are then persistant in the
> hardlinked daily directories
Doing this can tweak t
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
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:02:07 -0800, Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:24:54PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > It seems that this method would not use terribly much space in terms of
> > duplicating files, however I am not sure of the --delete portion
>
> In
On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 08:24:54PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It seems that this method would not use terribly much space in terms of
> duplicating files, however I am not sure of the --delete portion
In your command sequence, you are (properly) moving the existing
hierarchy of files out o
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:20:53 +0100, Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed 16 Feb 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I simply want to maintain a dated backup of a server so that I could
> > always go back to a certain date. I would like to keep this structure
> > for each day for th
On Wed 16 Feb 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I simply want to maintain a dated backup of a server so that I could
> always go back to a certain date. I would like to keep this structure
> for each day for the last seven days, then one weekly snapshot for each
> week in the month and then e
>You're using the wrong tool -- you want a binary diff program instead.
>Run that on your files, then rsync/tar/cp/whatever the diffs.
Not exactly, I need the rsync algorithm to check the new version
of the file against the checksums of that file calculated
when the previous backup was made, and
>Ah... now I see. Unfortunately, this one's over my head. Can anyone else
>help here? Can rsync deal explicitly with parts of files?
The rsync program can deal with delta files, but just in the batch mode,
unfortunately it is not exactly what I need.
The rsync algorithm instead is exaclty wha
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 09:06:59PM +, Diego Liziero wrote:
> So at every backup the whole 2Gbyte file is saved.
That's exactly what rsync's supposed to do, AIUI. I would be /very/
upset if it didn't make perfect copies. 8-)
> So I would like to use the rsync algorithm to calculate the diff
Diego wrote:
> Right, wonderful, but let's consider a big database file, let's say
> a 2Gbyte file, that is slightly changed every day of about a 10%
...
> So at every backup the whole 2Gbyte file is saved.
...
> So I would like to use the rsync algorithm to calculate the differences
> (delta fi
Thanks, now I know how rsync backup option works.
But I haven't been so clear about what I would like to do.
>> I would like to have a first snapshot (level 0) that is a complete copy,
>> and then other incremental backups that are just delta files
>> (just the differences from the level 0 snaps
> Something similar:
> I would like to have a first snapshot (level 0) that is a complete copy,
> and then other incremental backups that are just delta files
> (just the differences from the level 0 snapshot).
The "normal" utilities for this job would be dump and tar, especially if
you're dumpi
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