On 11-Feb-2009, at 14:44, Matt McCutchen wrote:
On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 14:12 -0700, lewis butler wrote:
rsync -aCHh --stats --link-dest=akane::backup/ranma.daily.1 /
myserver::akane/ranma.daily.0
rsync -aCHh --stats --link-dest=../ranma.daily.1 \
/ myserver::akane/ranma.daily.0
rsync -aCHh --stats --link-dest=/ranma.daily.1 \
/ myserver::akane/ranma.daily.0
Ah, that is cool. I didn't know that link-dest referred to paths on
the destination.
I have actually tried this command, but it's been building a file
list
for a very long time now. The data is only (only!!) about 12GB.
I suggest you upgrade both sides to rsync >= 3.0.0 to use the
incremental recursion mode, which interleaves file-list building with
destination updating for somewhat better performance.
I've though about upgrading to 3.x, but I have been putting it off.
Nervousness, I guess.
(What I want is to have several 'versions' of the current machine
backed-up to a second machine)
I'll mention that there are several tools that automate this process,
such as rsnapshot and dirvish, but I don't know if any of them support
writing to an rsync daemon. If you would like to use one of those
tools, you could run it on the destination machine to manage the
versions (assuming you have shell access) but still use the rsync
daemon
for the upload.
I wrote a shell script that rotates the backups and that works fine.
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