Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 21:14:23 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> To: Martin Brecher <listuser@mb-itconsulting.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Plan 9 style backup utility for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20040107211423.GB504@tuatara.fishballoon.org> In-Reply-To: <3FFC12D8.7070409@mb-itconsulting.com> References: <20040102172714.507A371B6@sierra.rtfm.com> <20040103105731.GA14806@tuatara.fishballoon.org> <3FFC12D8.7070409@mb-itconsulting.com>
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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 <http://www.rsnapshot.org/>. 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
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