Michal Soltys writes: : Dean S. Messing wrote: : > : > I don't see how one would do incrementals. My backup system uses : > currently does a monthly full backup, a weekly level 3 (which : > saves everything that has changed since the last level 3 a week ago) and : > daily level 5's (which save everything that changed today). : > : : Rsync is fantastic tool for incremental backups. Everything that didn't : change can be hardlinked to previous entry. And time of performing the : backup is pretty much neglible. Essentially - you have equivalent of : full backups at almost minimal time and space cost possible.
It has been some time since I read the rsync man page. I see that there is (among the bazillion and one switches) a "--link-dest=DIR" switch which I suppose does what you describe. I'll have to experiment with this and think things through. Thanks, Michal. Dean P.S. I changed the Subject: to reflect the new subject. Not sure if that starts a new thread or not. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
