On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 06:23, Omer Zak wrote:
> What I would like to have is a Time Machine (TM?) like scheme in which a
> backup disk will enable me to see a snapshot of my computer's disk from
> a certain date. It can be implemented by making hard links.
>
> Did anyone develop such a backup sc
Actually, with the possibility of nfs, my data could be anywhere and just
mounted at /nas/web-backup :)
Also, the --link-dest= flag I use is the hard link snapshots you're asking
about. It creates a new generation of links each day, and keeps a rotating
week of them. It's not N backups, it's
I see I follow a different backup policy from Sambo.
Sambo keeps the last N backups in the same physical hard disk (or maybe
RAID array). I keep a backup in a removable device. My policy is to
never trust a single interconnected system with my data (so that I'll
not suffer massive data loss if m
On 21/03/2011, at 15:57, Omer Zak wrote:
> By the way, my own backup script uses the following rsync flags:
> rsync -avH --progress --max-delete=20 --delete --delete-excluded
> --exclude-from=$EXCLUSIONS_FILE $FROM $TO
This looks like a fun game! I'll show you mine if you'll show me yours.
