File system backup scripts or utils
barker at science.fau.edu
barker at science.fau.edu
Tue Mar 16 18:19:16 UTC 2004
On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 04:00:47PM +0000, WipeOut wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know of some good file system backup scripts or utilities??
> (I don't mean like tar or cpio.. read on..)
>
> Specifically I am looking for some way to backup remote systems
> (probably using rsync over ssh is the best?) but I don't simply want a
> mirrored copy..
>
> 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..
>
> This to me would be a very efficent way to have a backup system that has
> the ability to have an archive history but doen not need masses of
> storage space..
Take a look at rsync-backup
http://www.stearns.org/rsync-backup/
It more or less does what you are asking above.
Peter Barker
Florida Atlantic University
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