Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 09:41:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd@philip.pjkh.com> To: Jack Stone <antennex@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: backup system rsync <-> dump Message-ID: <20060503094003.V41943@bravo.pjkh.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY106-F11B58A94A132F2DB5E42C7CCB70@phx.gbl> References: <BAY106-F11B58A94A132F2DB5E42C7CCB70@phx.gbl>
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>> With the right settings of --backup --backup-dir you can easily create a >> week (or two or three or whatever) archive of the "daily" changed files. >> So, for example.. >> >> /backup/usr - contains identical copy >> /backup/dailys/usr/Mon - contains files that changed on /usr on Monday. >> >> Then just set things up to rotate/expire the old copies and you have an >> easy way to get files back you deleted that you didn't mean to. >> >> I can post the whole script if you're interested... >> >> -philip > > Philip: I would be very interested in seeing your script if you would kindliy > post it. http://www.pjkh.com/~philip/backups.tgz Pretty straight forward. Set your directories in files.sh, create 'server' directories in servers and define what files/directories to include/exclude. Then run the script... -philip
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