rsync without a "data pool"
Tim Conway
conway at us.ibm.com
Mon Mar 8 23:43:50 GMT 2004
You can rsync back over the same data, and only the changes will be
brought over. If you're looking for an incremental backup sort of a deal,
use the --backup-dir option, which will save changed files over to a new
directory, so you can reach back in history.
The ability to roll the filesystem back to a specific data, including not
having things there that were added later, is a bit stickier, but there
are professional packages to handle that. ADSM(tradename has been changed
to "TSM" now) is particularly sweet in that regard, and I hear the Veritas
NetBackup is nice, too.
Tim Conway
Unix System Administration
Contractor - IBM Global Services
conway at us.ibm.com
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