M. Carrasco wrote (Friday, August 10, 2012 12:23 AM): > Reading the rsync man page, it seems that the -H option with > --link-dest is tricky. The price to pay on not using -H is that > hard linked files are treated as separated files: I could not > find any mechanism in rsync to improve the time machine effect; > I would appreciate hits on how to improve it. I highlight this > in the tym man page and inside the program.
I'm still using the way before -H and --link-dest were available: cp --archive --link "$PREVIOUS_SNAPSHOT" "$NEW_SNAPSHOT" rsync \ --archive --verbose --delete \ --delete-excluded --one-file-system \ $SOME_EXCLUDE_INCLUDE_RULES \ "$DIR_TO_BACKUP/" "$NEW_SNAPSHOT" With a bit shuffling around the snapshot directories, I keep 24x hourly, 7x daily, 4x weekly and 12 montly snapshots (using 4 cron jobs). Furthermore, I've mounted the backup partition as /root/backup, with a read-only bind-mount on /media/backup so that the user can always have a safe look into all the snapshots. ;-) Have a nice day, Berny -- 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