File system backup scripts or utils

[Jack Bowling]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 01:53:00PM -0500, 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"

Just a testimonial: I use rsnapshot and it works as advertised.


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Jack Bowling
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