On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Roberto Ragusa [via Fedora Users]
<ml-node+415115-878904345-22...@n3.nabble.com> wrote:
> Robert Nichols wrote:
>> rsync can be used to maintain a mirror of a file system as long as you
>> aren't particular about preserving metadata such as access times and
>> inode numbers.  The drawback is that a mirror is for one point in time
>> only.  If you want multiple backup levels you have to have storage for
>> several complete mirrors.
>
> Not if you use hard links, for example
>   rsync --link-dest
> or one of the backup tools using this great rsync option.
rdiff-backup?
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mike

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