Re: : Remote rsync question
Vic Gedris <[email protected]>
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On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 12:02:19AM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: >> Not using --delete has saved me a few times when I accidentally >> deleted stuff I didn't mean to, and realized it a few weeks later. I >> weed out cruft manually. And with 2 terabyte drives, I can keep old >> stuff around. > > rsnapshot is handy for backups since it keeps hardlinked trees for > different runs and still does the actual transfer with rsync. That way > you can keep old versions of files with only the cost in space of the > changed files. Very nice tool. Yes. Highly recommended. That's what I use for my regular (hourly/daily/weekly/monthly) backups, and my offline backups on external disks. It keeps the old stuff, but without cluttering it up in one place. -Vic -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://gtalug.org/ TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://gtalug.org/wiki/Mailing_lists