On Thu, 17 Dec 2015 11:06:10 PM Erik Christiansen via luv-main wrote:
On 17.12.15 21:33, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote:
There are a variety of backup systems that start with rsync and manage trees of links. It's not difficult to write your own, rsync the files, run "cp -al" to make a copy with hard links and use today's date in the directory name, and then delete backup directories that are too old.
I'm not grokking the benefit of doing the rsync _and_ a "cp -al". I just include -aH in my rsync options, the -H to preserve hard links. Seems to work.
rsync copies all the files. Then you do something like the following to preserve a version of that tree before you do the next rsync. cp -al current 2015-12-18 -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/