mirror combined with 7 day incremental backup
Lee Cullens
lee_cullens at mac.com
Sat Sep 17 17:45:33 GMT 2005
There are some notes at
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/#Rsyn and I remember
seeing other such approaches (but can't put my finger on them at the
moment).
Lee C
Darcy Bangsund wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to figure out how to keep a mirror and 7 day incremental
> backup between to 2 mount points.
>
> I want to rsync everything from /mnt/production/ to
> /mnt/backup/production/ on the same server.
> Nothing fancy.
>
> But ,
>
> I Want to utilize the --delete option for files that no longer exist
> on /mnt/production/ that have been on /mnt/backup/production/ for
> longer then 7 days.
>
> I can't use the BACKUPDIR=`date +%A`, multiple directory method, as
> the amount of data I'm dealing with is to great to kept track of
> easily that way
>
> I need the backup files to be a mirror of the original with 7 days of
> extra data.
>
> If anyone could help I'd really appreciate it.
>
> Thanx
>
> darcy
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