From owner-freebsd-isp Sun Sep 17 14:36:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mother.ludd.luth.se (mother.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85C7437B43C for ; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 14:36:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from speedy.ludd.luth.se (speedy.ludd.luth.se [130.240.16.164]) by mother.ludd.luth.se (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA14093; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:36:04 +0200 (MEST) Message-Id: <200009172136.XAA14093@mother.ludd.luth.se> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Jim Weeks Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: File pruning from archive In-Reply-To: Message from Jim Weeks of "Sun, 17 Sep 2000 12:33:27 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:36:04 +0200 From: Mattias Pantzare Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Does anyone have a good suggestion for pruning obsolete files and > directories from disk archives created with dump and restore? > > I have experimented with perl scripts checking for diffs and then deleting > the files from the backup disk, but haven't come up with anything I > consider extremely efficient. I do not understand what you are trying to do, but if all you want is two identical disk you shoud take a look at rsync (/usr/port/net/rsync) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message