link-dest and batch-file

[Larry Irwin (gmail)]

You have to have a script that places a "successful" file in the root of 
the completed rsync...
And use that to figure out what to do for link-dest at the top of the 
script...
I use something more like daily.0-daily.7 and monthly.0-monthly.3 for 
the folders and rotate them daily -if- the "successful" file exists.
If it does not rotate, then the failed rsync from the day before is 
reused...
(i.e. I always backup to daily.0 using daily.1 as the link-dest...)
I make a hard-link replica of daily.1 into monthly.0 on the first of 
each month.
That leaves me with 7 days of successful daily backups and 4 months of 
depth backups.

-- 
Larry Irwin
Email: lrirwin at alum.wustl.edu

On 06/26/2018 04:36 PM, Dan Stromberg via rsync wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 12:02 PM, Дугин Сергей via rsync 
> <rsync at lists.samba.org <mailto:rsync at lists.samba.org>> wrote:
>
>     I am launching a cron bash script that does the following:
>
>     Day 1
>     /usr/bin/rsync -aH --link-dest
>     /home/backuper/.BACKUP/0000009/2018-06-25
>     root at 192.168.1.103:/home/ /home/backuper/.BACKUP/0000009/2018-06-26
>
>     Day 2
>     /usr/bin/rsync -aH --link-dest
>     /home/backuper/.BACKUP/0000009/2018-06-26
>     root at 192.168.1.103:/home/ /home/backuper/.BACKUP/0000009/2018-06-27
>
>     Day 3
>     /usr/bin/rsync -aH --link-dest
>     /home/backuper/.BACKUP/0000009/2018-06-27
>     root at 192.168.1.103:/home/ /home/backuper/.BACKUP/0000009/2018-06-28
>
>     and etc.
>
> This isn't really what you were asking, but with the "dated 
> directories" scheme, what happens if one or your machines crashes 
> during a backup?  Don't you end up storing a lot more data in the next 
> successful backup?
>
>
>
>

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