Incremental Backups

[Hans-Juergen Beie]

at 17.02.2005 2:24 lists at southernohio.net wrote:
> I read the following hint at:
> http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/#Incremental
> 
> mv backup.0 backup.1
> rsync -a --delete --link-dest=../backup.1 source_directory/  backup.0/
> 
> 
> I simply want to maintain a dated backup of a server so that I could 
> always go back to a certain date.  I would like to keep this structure 
> for each day for the last seven days, then one weekly snapshot for each 
> week in the month and then each month I would like to have as well.

That's what I'm doing since some years. Have a look at 
http://www.pollux.franken.de/hjb/rsback.
rback is an implentation of Mike Rubel's approach written in perl.

> Thanks much for any help!
> 
> -George

hjb :-?