On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Sorin Srbu <sorin.s...@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... <snip>
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 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
