On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Sorin Srbu sorin.srbu@orgfarm.uu.se wrote: <snip>
The way we currently do backups is to use rsync from the clients to two folders on an older server that rolls over every other week. This worked fine for a while, but the rsync is cumulative and the users generate a tremendous amount of data...
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You might want to check out the rsync switches --backup-dir and --suffix. Using them some thing like this:
--delete --backup --backup-dir=$MIRROR_DIR/RsyncBckups --suffix=".$DATE"
allows you to keep an exact duplication of the original directory and keeping the original files that were either deleted or overwritten in a seperate backup directory with dated suffixes, which can be archived on some regular basis. This should allow you to keep the simplicity of rsync and control the cumulative size.
Brett
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Sorin Srbu sorin.srbu@orgfarm.uu.se wrote:
<snip> > The way we currently do backups is to use rsync from the clients to two > folders on an older server that rolls over every other week. This worked fine > for a while, but the rsync is cumulative and the users generate a tremendous > amount of data...
I use rsnapshot .. which manages sets of rsync backups using hardlinks. IT may be similar to what you are using already ..
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I use rsnapshot .. which manages sets of rsync backups using hardlinks. IT may be similar to what you are using already ..
Somewhat similar, thanks. I think however I need to get away from this sort of backups. They're just to space-consuming.
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