On Thursday 17 February 2005 02:24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I read the following hint at: > http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/#Incremental > > mv backup.0 backup.1 > rsync -a --delete --link-dest=../backup.1 source_directory/ backup.0/ > > > I simply want to maintain a dated backup of a server so that I could > always go back to a certain date. I would like to keep this structure > for each day for the last seven days, then one weekly snapshot for each > week in the month and then each month I would like to have as well. >
I think you really should check-out http://www.rsnapshot.org. Works great for me to keep hourly, daily, weekly and monthly backups incrementally. Of course based on rsync ;) - Joost -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
