On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 10:46 PM, Brian J. Murrell <br...@interlinx.bc.ca> wrote: > # cp -al /backup/previous-backup/ /backup/current-backup > # rsync -aAHX ... --exclude /backup / /backup/current-backup > > The shortcoming of this of course is that it just takes 1 byte in a > (possibly huge) file to require that the whole file be recopied to the > backup.
If you have snapshots anyway, why not : - create a snapshot before each backup run - use the same directory (e.g. just /backup), no need to "cp" anything - add "--inplace" to rsync -- Fajar -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
