Steven Kurylo wrote:
>> I'm surprised that I don't see a '--backup' or a '--backup-dir' in
>> there... Without those, you really just have a one-way mirror, and
>> that's not a backup. (If you don't notice right away that you've
>> overwritten/corrupted some valuable file, then the next time you
>> rsync you lose your backup copy too... :( )
>
> It is a backup, you're just not rotating it. Adding --backup just
> gives you one rotation. In the past with rysnc I've gone the hardlink
> route, as I can then make several rotations while only using a small
> amount of space. Using --backup mean you need the space for two full
> backups.
The hardlink route works well, and I should move to that. I think a
one-way mirror still qualifies as a backup, but more for disaster
recovery than file recovery. Plus, currently I "rotate" by having more
than one external hard drive. Certainly --backup would have a place if I
left the drive attached, but I just manually the connect the correct
external drive when I do a backup (makes me feel nostalgic about tape
rotation schemes).
Les...
Received on Wed Mar 19 16:36:42 2008
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