On 8/9/11 9:35 PM, John R Pierce wrote:
On 08/09/11 6:23 PM, Always Learning wrote:
What do you suggest for scheduled incremental saves of files changing irregularly ?
well, there's always a classic monthly/weekly/daily incremental/differential sequence using dump (assuming its extfs).
backuppc is neat, but you end up with a really huge gnarly file system with bazillions of files and links, becoming unmanagable over time
As a filesystem it continues to work just fine. It is only 'unmanageable' in the sense that it becomes impractical to back it up with file-oriented methods because reconstructing that number of hardlinks is time consuming. But (a) it _is_ the backup, and (b) image-oriented filesystem copies work fine - or splitting and resync'ing raid mirrors.