From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 25 09:03:22 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F45316A41F for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:03:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scott@fishballoon.org) Received: from mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com (mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com [81.103.221.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5EC443D5D for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:03:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scott@fishballoon.org) Received: from aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com ([81.103.221.35]) by mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050825090318.MWHX23002.mta08-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com>; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:03:18 +0100 Received: from llama.fishballoon.org ([81.104.195.171]) by aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com with ESMTP id <20050825090318.JSJL29701.aamta12-winn.ispmail.ntl.com@llama.fishballoon.org>; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:03:18 +0100 Received: from scott by llama.fishballoon.org with local (Exim 4.52 (FreeBSD)) id 1E8Ddd-000Kwm-J7; Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:03:09 +0100 Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:03:09 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell To: Danny Howard Message-ID: <20050825090308.GA80444@llama.fishballoon.org> References: <20050819141535.GA62513@lohi.local> <20050823182133.GF51748@ratchet.nebcorp.com> <20050823112716.U26292@wolf.pjkh.com> <20050824113237.GA68101@llama.fishballoon.org> <20050824213708.GT51748@ratchet.nebcorp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050824213708.GT51748@ratchet.nebcorp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE i386 Sender: Scott Mitchell Cc: Scott Mitchell , Ilari Laitinen , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 09:03:22 -0000 On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 02:37:08PM -0700, Danny Howard wrote: > All this great discussion got me researchinng. I haven't tried this > out but it looks like rsnapshot integrates a lot of features like this > into a single configurable, cronable script. It is in ports as well. > > A lot of systems make use of cp -al ... well, for us FreeBSD people that > means gcp from coreutils. > > rsnapshot looks like a lightweight, OS/FS-portable method of building > rotating filesystem-wide snapshots via hardlinks, but can be made to > operate on limited sets of directories, etc. It can create local > snaphots of remote directories, but not, apparently, remote copies of > local directories. One trick I gleaned from > http://burd.info/gary/2003/03/snapshot-backup-using-rsync-and-ssh.html > is to invoke rsync with --rsync-path which points to a script which > performs maintenence functions and then passes off to rsync proper, so > you could probably set up a client-triggered rsnapshot configuration if > you were, say, doing backups of a Windows laptop client. :) > > -danny That sounds pretty cool - probably better than my homebrewed scripts :-) I will have to check it out. Cheers, Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon