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On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 16:39, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> On Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:08:18 +0100, Ward Poelmans wrote: |
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>> You should take a look at rsnapshot ( http://rsnapshot.org/ ). I use |
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>> it and it works perfectly. But it's written in perl and not bash, i'm |
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>> afraid. |
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> That misses the point. This isn't really about making backups, it's about |
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> learning to write shell scripts. Backing up is just the project that Dale |
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> has chosen for this first effort, at least that's how I read it. |
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Sorry, i've read the original message a bit too fast. But it's still |
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worth to take a look at how rsnapshot works if you want to write |
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anything yourself. I think that the combination of rsync and hardlinks |
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is quite effective and fast. |
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Ward |