2 years later... backups

[Rahul]

Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
> Roberto Ragusa <mail at robertoragusa.it> writes:
> 
>> One day I decided to remove some old backups by launching
>> an rm command for each snapshot directory in parallel.
>> I then realized that there were more than 1000 directories,
>> and the total number of files to be deleted was around
>> 100 million.
>> It took some time, but everything went fine; not a bad
>> stress test for the machine (reiserfs/LVM2/nv_sata)
>> I had never seen a load average above 1000 until then.
>> :-)
>>
>> There is only one thing I'd like to improve: renamed
>> or moved files are seen as new files and are not hardlinked.
>> I didn't try if "--fuzzy" works for hardlinking too.
> 
> I have put my "just another backup solution" on
> http://www.kernel.org/~chris/cbackup-1.05.tar.gz
> Probably someone would find it useful.
> 

Interested in maintaining this for Fedora Extras?

Rahul