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
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
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 :-)
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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
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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
That's right. I forgot about rdiff...I'll look into it and see if it
applies for me at all...
Thanx Lee.
darcy
Lee Cullens wrote:
I forgot to mention that in playing around with
differential/incremental rsync approaches, I came across a tool called
rdiff-backup (uses librsync) that takes a
I forgot to mention that in playing around with differential/incremental
rsync approaches, I came across a tool called rdiff-backup (uses
librsync) that takes a very efficient approach. I just started checking
it out.
Lee Cullens wrote:
There are some notes at
http://www.mikerubel.org/compu
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 incremental
backup bet
