Comments on: By all means, Paul, … http://blog.xcski.com/2007/01/08/by-all-means-paul Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:22:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Planeta Debian » By all means, Paul, … http://blog.xcski.com/2007/01/08/by-all-means-paul#comment-16063 Planeta Debian » By all means, Paul, … Tue, 09 Jan 2007 13:25:56 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2007/01/08/by-all-means-paul#comment-16063 [...] Original post by Paul Tomblin [...] [...] Original post by Paul Tomblin [...]

]]> By: &rw http://blog.xcski.com/2007/01/08/by-all-means-paul#comment-16033 &rw Mon, 08 Jan 2007 23:48:38 +0000 http://blog.xcski.com/2007/01/08/by-all-means-paul#comment-16033 <i>Yesterday I also discovered the “--link_dest” argument to rsync, so I can keep several days worth of backups in much less space.</i> Maybe you should have a look at <a href="http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">BackupPC</a>, which also uses rsync for backups, and a (IMHO) rather sensible "pool" approach to files (plus optional compression) with hardlinks - in effect, one can keep nearly as much backups (full and/or incremental) as one likes with very little space consumed. F'rex, I currently have 10 hosts backed up (42 full backups 376.18GB, 53 incr backups 36.02GB), and only use about 90GB of real space. Yesterday I also discovered the “–link_dest” argument to rsync, so I can keep several days worth of backups in much less space.

Maybe you should have a look at BackupPC, which also uses rsync for backups, and a (IMHO) rather sensible “pool” approach to files (plus optional compression) with hardlinks - in effect, one can keep nearly as much backups (full and/or incremental) as one likes with very little space consumed. F’rex, I currently have 10 hosts backed up (42 full backups 376.18GB, 53 incr backups 36.02GB), and only use about 90GB of real space.

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