File system backup scripts or utils

[barker at science.fau.edu]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 04:00:47PM +0000, WipeOut wrote:
> 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..

Take a look at rsync-backup

http://www.stearns.org/rsync-backup/

It more or less does what you are asking above.   

Peter Barker
Florida Atlantic University