On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:29:17 -0600
Karl Larsen <k5di(a)zianet.com> wrote:
Luciano Rocha wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 05:13:11AM -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
>> I am interested in why you keep the last 15 incremental
>> backups in files away from the main backup.
>
> Why or how? If "why", because I may only notice that I deleted an
> important file or e-mail after a few days. With the backup, I can
> still access them.
Got it! And very smart! Why not have a protection from
accidental deletion. After all a unix delete is a real delete!
>
> If "how", I iterate over the contents of the directory and keep
> variables with the number of entries in the directory and the
> argument to rsync with the link-dest option:
> for d in `ls $host/`; do
> if [ $count -gt 15 ]; then
> ## remove if more than 15
> rm -fr $host/$d
> elif [ $count -le 2 ]; then
> ## add to link-dest if lower/eq than 2
> link="--link-dest=$PWD/$host/$d $link"
> fi
> ((count--))
> done
>
>
Not to mention rdiff or even rsnapshot.
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Best regards,
Chris
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