rsync backup
Chris
racerx at makeworld.com
Tue Aug 7 12:34:41 UTC 2007
On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:29:17 -0600
Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
> Luciano Rocha wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 05:13:11AM -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
> >> I am interested in why you keep the last 15 incremental
> >> backups in files away from the main backup.
> >
> > Why or how? If "why", because I may only notice that I deleted an
> > important file or e-mail after a few days. With the backup, I can
> > still access them.
>
> Got it! And very smart! Why not have a protection from
> accidental deletion. After all a unix delete is a real delete!
>
>
> >
> > If "how", I iterate over the contents of the directory and keep
> > variables with the number of entries in the directory and the
> > argument to rsync with the link-dest option:
> > for d in `ls $host/`; do
> > if [ $count -gt 15 ]; then
> > ## remove if more than 15
> > rm -fr $host/$d
> > elif [ $count -le 2 ]; then
> > ## add to link-dest if lower/eq than 2
> > link="--link-dest=$PWD/$host/$d $link"
> > fi
> > ((count--))
> > done
> >
> >
>
>
Not to mention rdiff or even rsnapshot.
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Best regards,
Chris
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