On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 04:25:43PM -0700, Sebastian Smith wrote: > I've been using a modified version of the "backup to a central backup > server with 7 day incremental" backup script from rsync's "examples" page > for over a year now:
> The primary problem I've found with this script is that it has to be > modified for each installation (effects a lot of the qualities I'm looking > for in backup software). So... I've started generalizing the script, and > have begun adding features I want... which are: > I'd like to know what everyone else would like in backup software, as when > I'm done I will release it to the community. I'm not sure how applicable this is to a sysadmin type setting, but I found some really interesting backup solutions involving scripts and hard links (not symbolic). Using hard links essentally creates an incremental backup, since you can create daily snapshots of a folder with hard links, and although you may have many folders, each with a different daily snapshot, they don't take much much space because they're all linked to each other, except for the files that change. OK, reading back on that doesn't make much sence, but I'm in a rush. :) One of the best writeups was one of the orignal articles that took this idea and meshed it with rsync for something really pretty [1]. It explains the ideas. I found more recently a script called rsnapshot[2] which does the whole rsync/hard link concept that's talked about in the article, in a nice little package. This[3] article talks a little more about using it. I'm not sure if it's really right for you, but it sure it handy for me and my personal systems. [1] http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ [2] http://www.rsnapshot.org/ [3] http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/04/26/1921236&tid=89 -- Lance Orner [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
