[Techtalk] rsync backup script

[Carla Schroder]

On Monday 21 June 2004 6:59 pm, Dan Shearer wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 05:00:24PM -0700, Kai MacTane wrote:
> > At 6/21/04 04:41 PM , Carla Schroder wrote:
> > >Does anyone have a really really cool rsync script they'd like to share? 
> > >All I know is script 'rsync -a  -e ssh sourc dest' and slap it into cron.
> > >
> > >Something that does some error-checking and logging would be luverly.
> > >It's for publication, so you'll get fame and glory. I've tested a
> > >number of scripts I found on Google, and haven't found anything that
> > >doesn't need a lot of babysitting, which rather defeats the purpose.
> > >For Linux only, don't worry about exotic Unixes.
> 
> There is a very nice application of rsync that turns it into a
> snapshotting facility using the basic Unix filesystem feature of links,
> as in "cp -al" which creates a new link rather than copying a file.

I don't see the point of this. since rsync only moves diffs, why bother with 
cp -al? 


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