On Sat 17 Sep 2005, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 01:27:16PM -0400, Darcy Bangsund wrote: > > I Want to utilize the --delete option for files that no longer exist on > > /mnt/production/ that have been on /mnt/backup/production/ for longer > > then 7 days. > > Your two choices are (1) to use --link-dest into a new directory every > day (which shares most of the data using hard-links, but does require 7 > days worth of inodes for the whole hierarchy, which may be undesireable)
Hmm, I don't understand what you mean with "7 days worth of inodes". If only 1% of the files change every day, then you only need "1 days worth + 6%" inodes (ignoring unique inodes for every directory, as you can't hard-link directories, and ignoring special files such as device nodes which aren't linked apparently). > or (2) use --backup and --backup-dir into a new directory every day to > put just the changed/deleted files into that backup hierarchy. I've noticed that no one has mentioned dirvish yet, which takes a lot of the work out of your hands. See http://www.dirvish.org/ Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html