Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 11:11:40 -0400 From: Hornet <hornetmadness@gmail.com> To: Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots] Message-ID: <f42935a605082908111d539e2e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <43131C85.1070100@meijome.net> References: <20050828234043.H22315@maren.thelosingend.net> <20050829161506.E2522@maren.thelosingend.net> <43131C85.1070100@meijome.net>
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On 8/29/05, Norberto Meijome <freebsd@meijome.net> wrote: > Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: > > * Svein Halvor Halvorsen [2005-08-28 23:53 +0200] > > > >> Does this sound reasonable? Is there any precautions I should take? Ar= e > >> there any other tools better suited for the task at hand? > > > > > > > > I'm responding to my own message. > > > > Let's say I happen to move all music from /music/artist - album/ to > > /music/artist/album. Even though a local snapshot would handle this wel= l, > > rsync would create new files on the remote machine, and when I then tak= e a > > snapshot there, it will be HUGE! >=20 > isn't that the whole point of having a backup? to have *another* copy of > your files? >=20 > and I guess that yes, if the files are new in the remote system, when > you take a snapshot the difference with the previous snapshot will be > the size of the new data (only guessing from how snapshots work in > Linux, so feel free to flame ..err..correct me :) ) > Beto >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" >=20 cat /usr/ports/sysutils/rsnapshot/pkg-descr -Erik-
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