Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 10:03:09 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott+lists.freebsd@fishballoon.org> To: Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com> Cc: Scott Mitchell <scott+lists.freebsd@fishballoon.org>, Ilari Laitinen <ilari.laitinen@iki.fi>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump(8), incremental backups, Tower of Hanoi sequence, don't get it Message-ID: <20050825090308.GA80444@llama.fishballoon.org> In-Reply-To: <20050824213708.GT51748@ratchet.nebcorp.com> 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>
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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
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