On 2008-11-28, Michael Chesterton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Very minor nitpick, rsync can save older data, and put them in > whatever dir you want. > > before rdiff-backup i used to use rsync --backup --backup-dir=$date- > based-dir
Thanks for that: I am guessing from the rsync man page though that it isn't particularly careful to only store the differences and therefore may take up more space? There are some alternative rsync-based backup solutions that try and make the *entire* series of backups available as a file structure, wasting as little space as possible by hard-linking: http://www.rsnapshot.org/ is the one I've heard of most, http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/related.html under "rsync-based scripts" has others. For me I've generally found that I pretty much always want the most recent or next-to-most-recent backup, so I haven't needed this feature. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
