On Mon, Dec 21, 2015 at 11:25:29AM +1100, Trent W. Buck via luv-main wrote:
The active ingredient of rsnapshot is "rsync --link-dest", if you want to roll your own rsnapshot replacement.
rsnapshot config mandates annoying literal tabs, has a directory structure that's not directly compatible with samba's Shadow Copy modules, and doesn't correctly handle a file being deleted, then readded (i.e. pass --link-dest to ALL snapshots, not just the last one).
That's the way my scripts work, except I was not aware you could now have multiple --link-dest arguments. Thanks for pointing that out. The only downside to using --link-dest is that changes to the backed up file permissions and ownership can get lost and should be tracked separately if needed. At least, I vaguely recall noticing that being a problem when I write the scripts years ago. -Adam