On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:29 PM, ken gebser@mousecar.com wrote:
Considering using rsync on a couple systems for backup, I was wondering if it's possible, and if so how difficult is it, to delete files which have been backed up (in order to save space on the backup media).
Anyone with experience doing this?
it's certainly feasible for a a fairly lackluster backup solution (e.g. gonna rebuild machine, want all of /home saved to other machine, rsync then reinstall to try $new ditro!) but I wouldn't recommend rsync for product grade backups; it'd get very complex very quickly trying to figure a way to do versioning (rsync would be really good for 'oops, I removed X file, but I'd copied it over to M machine, so I can recover', not very good at 'someone changed this file 4 days ago and now it doesn't do what I want, I'd like to go back to a previous version). at least in my estimation.