Backup with rsync until one month

Michael B Allen mba2000 at ioplex.com
Wed Nov 26 06:50:49 EST 2003


> Hello,
>
> I use rsync in the company to make a backup every 4 hours.
>
> but I would like to do in a way like this, that the rsync make a backup of
> the changed files until one month long.
>
> EX:- file.bak.001 file.bak.002 .....
>
> This file will be to get always, and so i can get the all files untill an
> one month old version of the file.
>
>
> Is it possible?

I don't think you need rsync at all for this. Just use fine to identify
which files are older than 1 month and use rename to change the file
extentions.

Mike

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