[CentOS] [OT] Building a new backup server
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Tue Nov 5 15:39:10 UTC 2013
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:27 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> >>
>> No, rsync will only hardlink to instances of the same file in the same
>> location from previous runs. Backuppc will link every file with
> <snip>
> True. But we have a directory structure like
> .../servername
> |
> -> date-weeks-ago
> date-weeks-ago-1
> ...
> date-yesterday
> |-> (symlink) latest
> and the symlink gets reset after the backup's done.
Have you tried backuppc? There are some tradeoffs because it makes an
extra hardlink into a pool directory tree where the name is a hash of
the content, but it takes care of all the other stuff for you and
would let you store a much longer history, especially if there are
duplicate copies of any of the files spread around.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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