File system backup scripts or utils

[Christof Damian]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, William Hooper wrote:
> 
> Sorry "WipeOut" for starting a new thread, but I don't have the original
> mail anymore.
> 
> > 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..
> 
> LinuxJournal this month mentions www.rsnapshot.org:
> 
> "...als makes use of hard links for storage, so the same file isn't stored
> twice but hard linked...Requires: Perl, rsync, and SSH"

not quite what you want, but very useful: rdiff-backup

it gives you one working copy as backup and keeps old versions in a
rsync-diff style format to save space.

christof

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