Am 11.01.2013 um 19:29 schrieb Les Mikesell: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:54 AM, zGreenfelder <zgreenfelder at gmail.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:29 PM, ken <gebser at 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. > > Urk, insufficient coffee this morning. In my previous reply I thought > this was the backuppc list. Backuppc does in fact do a very good job > of storing backups in minimal space - and can use rsync to do it while > also maintaining versioning so it is great as a generic backup > solution. But, it doesn't have anything built-in to delete target > files after the copy. There is an option to run post-backup scripts > that might work. alternative: check rsnapshot. -- LF