Hi Keith, On 9/29/07, Keith Lofstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since version 2.6.4, rsync has allowed multiple --link-dest target > directories. If a file is not found in the first --link-dest target, > rsync will search the next --link-dest target, then the next, and so
Hrmm, I can't comment on your idea but, related in some way... I did spot the multiple --link-dest thing (or was it --compare-dest?) when skimming through the man recently and wondered - could this also be used to kick-start from failed backups? That is, to use all failed backups up until the last successful image as additional references and once a job is successful, the failed snapshots could then be deleted. How it would work? I guess failures could be added to the .hist file as such, so that dirvish could track them and include only the last set of failures as --link-dest's. I do backups over the 'net and often find that on the rare occasions of failure, it gets stuck on a fairly large file - often after other large files have already been transferred. If it can pick up pretty much from where it left off, that would save a lot of bandwidth and lessen the potential for it to fail yet again. - Darren Hook _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list Dirvish@dirvish.org http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
