rsync to tape

[Martin Pool]

On  8 Aug 2001, Martin Pool <mbp at valinux.com> wrote:
> On  7 Aug 2001, Sudarshan Ramaswamy <sudar at synopsys.COM> wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I could do that anyways.  I  am interested in this option  for the following
> > 
> > 1) When I run rsync in cron. It copies the data to a directory. If it can
> > copy the difference of files regularly to a tape
> > I could use the disk space on my machine for something else.
> 
> rsync can't do that, but librsync is meant to be able to.  
> 
> I haven't tried this yet, but here's a *sketch* of how it should
> work.
> 
>  1. Read the section about rsync-based tape backup in tridge's thesis,
>     linked from the rsync site

Specifically: 

  http://va.samba.org/~tridge/phd_thesis.pdf

page 92 onwards, and more generally chapters 4 and 5.

-- 
Martin