On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, William Hooper wrote: > > Sorry "WipeOut" for starting a new thread, but I don't have the original > mail anymore. > > > I want to have a seperate directory created each day with the backed > > up files in.. Also I want files that have not changed to be symlinked > > to the previous version of the file so that I don't need ten times the > > disk space of the original source on the backup system and don't have > > to transfer the entire file set over the network to the backup system > > only the changed files.. > > LinuxJournal this month mentions www.rsnapshot.org: > > "...als makes use of hard links for storage, so the same file isn't stored > twice but hard linked...Requires: Perl, rsync, and SSH" not quite what you want, but very useful: rdiff-backup it gives you one working copy as backup and keeps old versions in a rsync-diff style format to save space. christof -- Christof Damian christof@xxxxxxxxxx
