On Thursday 26 June 2003 17:56, Buchan Milne wrote: > This can be done with rsync in backup mode with hard links. I haven't > tried it yet though. > This should be done in the filesystem. A rm shouldn't remove the file but move it to the backup dir
> Remember, binary files (ie word docs) don't make nice diffs (usually > bigger than the file itself). If you have something that makes nice > diffs (OpenOffice.org xml), why have the filesystem do it when better > tools are available (ie CVS). If you don't have something that makes > nice diffs, you had better have lots of disk available. OO xml is zipped so i don't know if that still makes good diffs. And docs have the diff's internally IIRC > > What's wrong with good old backups?? (amanda for instance). It is not a backup problem
