Re: [MLUG] groking rsync

["Mark Rages" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 5/3/07, Huggard, Arthur Charles (UMC-Student) <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> Another handy rsync switch (in case you're using rsync for remote backups) is --link-dest <old-directory>
>
> If files are unchanged, this command will create a hardlink of the old file in the new directory, thus enabling you to maintain several "full backups" for the disk price of incremental ones! For example: here's the crux of the backup scheme I use on the lab servers:
>
> rsync -a --delete --delete-excluded --delete-after --rsh="ssh -l `hostname`" --exclude="/sys/*" --exclude="/proc/*" --exclude="/mnt/*/*" --rsync-path="sudo /usr/bin/rsync" --link-dest=../backup.1 /  destination:./backup.0/

I had a script that did this on a reiserfs / linux RAID5 system, and
it would get wedged if there were more than a couple hundred hardlinks
to the same file.  Never was able to track it down more closely than
that.  This was with one of the early 2.4 kernels.

Regards,
Mark
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