File system backup scripts or utils
Rob Freeman
sysadmin at fleetone.com
Tue Mar 16 16:03:53 UTC 2004
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know of some good file system backup scripts or utilities??
> (I don't mean like tar or cpio.. read on..)
>
> Specifically I am looking for some way to backup remote systems
> (probably using rsync over ssh is the best?) but I don't simply want a
> mirrored copy..
>
> I want to have a seperate directory created each day with the backed up
> files in.. Also I want files that have not changed to be symlinked to
> the previous version of the file so that I don't need ten times the disk
> space of the original source on the backup system and don't have to
> transfer the entire file set over the network to the backup system only
> the changed files..
>
> This to me would be a very efficent way to have a backup system that has
> the ability to have an archive history but doen not need masses of
> storage space..
>
> Thanks for any thoughts..
Have you looked into mondo?
http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/
Rob
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