-------------------------------------------------- From: "Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri." <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2010 4:33 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [ILUG-BOM] Incremental Backup using rsync
> On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, Kshitiz wrote: > >> Dear Friends >> >> Can anyone help me write a script for incremental backup using rsync to >> create multiple restore-point-backup that can be easily restored? >> >> I feel a full backup once in 400 days, with hourly incremental, daily >> incremental and weekly incremental backup being rotated in a way in >> which 1 full backup followed by 24 hourly incremental backups, >> interspersed with 7 daily incremental backups and 5 weekly incremental >> backups may be protection enough for my data. What is the you all's >> expert opinion? Kindly suggest a better methodology please. >> >> Would it be better if these backups are compressed and stored in tar >> format? Kindly guide please. >> >> Regards and thank you all in advance Kshitiz > > Why reinvent the wheel ? Look at rsnapshot. Been using it for a couple of > years now. > > regards, > > Sharukh. > -- > Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. Homoeopath, Linuxer. > It's faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money. -- > Tom T. Hall, "The Secret of Life" > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > Thank you Dr. Will try and configure it and revert in case of any help / support required. Regards Kshitiz -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
