backup system rsync <-> dump

Jack Stone antennex at hotmail.com
Wed May 3 12:29:48 UTC 2006


>From: Philip Hallstrom <freebsd at philip.pjkh.com>
>To: dick hoogendijk <dick at nagual.st>
>CC: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
>Subject: Re: backup system rsync <-> dump
>Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 11:15:55 -0500 (CDT)
>
>With the right settings of --backup --backup-dir you can easily create a 
>week (or two or three or whatever) archive of the "daily" changed files. 
>So, for example..
>
>/backup/usr - contains identical copy
>/backup/dailys/usr/Mon - contains files that changed on /usr on Monday.
>
>Then just set things up to rotate/expire the old copies and you have an 
>easy way to get files back you deleted that you didn't mean to.
>
>I can post the whole script if you're interested...
>
>-philip

Philip: I would be very interested in seeing your script if you would 
kindliy post it.

Thanks!
Jack

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