On 17 January 2017 at 01:57, Andrea Venturoli wrote: > > Hello. > > I've got a 2TB backup HD which is filled with several copies (at different > times) of the same data; in other words, I could have the following > directories: > > Data20170117 > Data20170110 > Data20170103 > ... > Data20161220 > User20170117 > User20170110 > User20170103 > ... > User20161220 > DB20170117 > DB20170110 > DB20170103 > ... > DB20161220 > > > > Now I periodically need to copy this HD to another one, which is, alas, only > 1TB. > So I'd like to only transfer the most recent copies, either until the disk is > full or by specifying a number of "copies" to keep. Of course the older ones > should be deleted. > > Think rsync (which I've been using extensibly), but with a size barrier.
This is not specifically a cygwin solution, but I am using it with my cygwin installation as well as interesting parts of my windows installation. Restic is a program that does backups right. home page: https://restic.github.io/ documentation: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ source: https://github.com/restic/restic Read the home page. I think it meets its design goals very well. HTH, Doug -- Doug Henderson, Calgary, Alberta, Canada - from gmail.com -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple