On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 05:13:11AM -0600, Karl Larsen wrote: > I am interested in why you keep the last 15 incremental > backups in files away from the main backup. Why or how? If "why", because I may only notice that I deleted an important file or e-mail after a few days. With the backup, I can still access them. If "how", I iterate over the contents of the directory and keep variables with the number of entries in the directory and the argument to rsync with the link-dest option: for d in `ls $host/`; do if [ $count -gt 15 ]; then ## remove if more than 15 rm -fr $host/$d elif [ $count -le 2 ]; then ## add to link-dest if lower/eq than 2 link="--link-dest=$PWD/$host/$d $link" fi ((count--)) done -- lfr 0/0
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