On 8/9/11 9:35 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > On 08/09/11 6:23 PM, Always Learning wrote: >> What do you suggest for scheduled incremental saves of files changing >> irregularly ? > > well, there's always a classic monthly/weekly/daily > incremental/differential sequence using dump (assuming its extfs). > > backuppc is neat, but you end up with a really huge gnarly file system > with bazillions of files and links, becoming unmanagable over time > As a filesystem it continues to work just fine. It is only 'unmanageable' in the sense that it becomes impractical to back it up with file-oriented methods because reconstructing that number of hardlinks is time consuming. But (a) it _is_ the backup, and (b) image-oriented filesystem copies work fine - or splitting and resync'ing raid mirrors. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos