Well, You may look at:
http://www.howtoforge.com/backing-up-with-rsync-and-managing-previous-versions-history I've written it. Very simple and comprehensive to setup. It's easy to setup when doing a local backup, it's getting more difficult when backing up to a remote host. Stef PS in this howto backing up to a remote rsync server contains an error. I'll report about that here in an other mail 2010/5/14 Thomas Evangelidis <[email protected]>: > I'm really confused with all the examples out there and all different types > of incremental backups. I tried several scripts but cannot reduce the size > of my backup folders. What I want is to backup my documents to my external > drive every month and save as much disk space as possible. > > Lets say I have 3 backup directories in the external drive, backup03.10, > backup04.10 and backup05.10. I want to: > > 1) keep old files in backup03.10 that have been deleted in May, and hence > are not in backup05.10 > 2) use symbolic or hard links for files or directories that have not been > modified > 3) files that were modified in May must be in backup05.10 whereas the old > versions in backup03.10 and backup04.10, with those in backup04.10 being > symbolic links (if possible) > > Please someone help me with this or point me to the right example. > > -- > Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. > To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html > -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
