mirror combined with 7 day incremental backup

[Darcy Bangsund]

That's right. I forgot about rdiff...I'll look into it and see if it 
applies for me at all...

Thanx Lee.


darcy

Lee Cullens wrote:

> I forgot to mention that in playing around with 
> differential/incremental rsync approaches, I came across a tool called 
> rdiff-backup (uses librsync) that takes a very efficient approach.  I 
> just started checking it out.
>
> Lee Cullens wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>