From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 13:15:22 2004 Return-Path: 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 1F22516A4CE for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 13:15:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (mta06-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.46]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F349043D46 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 13:15:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scott@fishballoon.org) Received: from llama.fishballoon.org ([81.104.195.124]) by mta06-svc.ntlworld.comESMTP <20040107211519.RVIO1005.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@llama.fishballoon.org>; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 21:15:19 +0000 Received: from tuatara.fishballoon.org ([192.168.1.6]) by llama.fishballoon.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24; FreeBSD) id 1AeL0S-000PcV-9z; Wed, 07 Jan 2004 21:14:24 +0000 Received: (from scott@localhost) by tuatara.fishballoon.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i07LENUi000574; Wed, 7 Jan 2004 21:14:23 GMT (envelope-from scott) Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 21:14:23 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell To: Martin Brecher Message-ID: <20040107211423.GB504@tuatara.fishballoon.org> References: <20040102172714.507A371B6@sierra.rtfm.com> <20040103105731.GA14806@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <3FFC12D8.7070409@mb-itconsulting.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FFC12D8.7070409@mb-itconsulting.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE i386 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Plan 9 style backup utility for FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 21:15:22 -0000 On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:08:24PM +0100, Martin Brecher wrote: > Scott Mitchell wrote: > [...] > >> > >>Is there some standard tool for doing this on FreeBSD? You can't just > >>do a direct copy cause this results in major disk space wastage so I'm > >>imagining you need to use hard links or something to keep the size down. > > > > > >Check out rsync and the "--link-dest=DIR" option. This will hardlink > >unchanged files to the previous copy in the link-dest directory, rather > >than copying the data again. > > > > I just saw a project named rsnapshot on freshmeat.net: > > rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync. It > makes it easy to make periodic snapshots of local machines, and > remote machines over ssh. It uses hard links whenever possible, > to greatly reduce the disk space required. > > Homepage is . Does not seem to be in the > ports collection, though. Sounds like it could be useful. Might look into this as a replacement for the various scripts and command-lines-sribbled-on-bits-of-paper that do the backups at the moment :-) 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