-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I handle this by actually backing up to "backupname.incomplete". Once the backup is complete I then rename it to "backupname.yyyy-mm-dd.HH-MM-SS". That way all of the backups with date+time stamps in the name are completed backups and if a backup fails repeatedly that will not count multiple times against the number of backups I intend to keep.
On 01/23/13 03:15, Voelker, Bernhard wrote: > Kevin Korb wrote: >> On 01/22/13 18:12, Kevin Korb wrote: >>> That is the old way that pre-dates --link-dest. Instead of cp >>> -al daily.02 daily.01 you can do a mkdir daily.01 then an rsync >>> ... --link-dest=../daily.02 daily.01 >>> >>> Rsync then doesn't need any --delete and you don't bother >>> making any hard links that will eventually be replaced. Plus >>> the linking happens while rsync is running so it is usually >>> much faster. > >> Also, if you put dates and times in the file names instead of >> .01, .02, etc you don't have to do any mv's, you can easily tell >> when each backup was run, and ls can tell you which the newest >> and oldest are. > > Please tell me if I'm wrong, but depending on the scenario, it has > one week point: > > I'm using a similar script on some desktop PCs. The problem is, > that - due to the fact that it's a desktop PC - the backup can be > killed during a shutdown ... leaving the last backup uncomplete. > That's not a problem per se, but with the next backup, the missing > files are copied freshly from the source and thus exhausting > backup space. Therefore, the script I'm using rotates the snapshot > *after* a successful run of rsync. > > Have a nice day, Berny > - -- ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ Kevin Korb Phone: (407) 252-6853 Systems Administrator Internet: FutureQuest, Inc. ke...@futurequest.net (work) Orlando, Florida k...@sanitarium.net (personal) Web page: http://www.sanitarium.net/ PGP public key available on web site. ~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~'`^`'~*-,._.,-*~ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlEAAPwACgkQVKC1jlbQAQdLUgCfb6Kjgv9+sW37BdWx6UvxtsQb WQIAnRkF2ilrf9rVf6xt5zQGlb8GfTah =zhr+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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