On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:29 PM, ken <gebser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Considering using rsync on a couple systems for backup, I was wondering > if it's possible, and if so how difficult is it, to delete files which > have been backed up (in order to save space on the backup media). > > Anyone with experience doing this? it's certainly feasible for a a fairly lackluster backup solution (e.g. gonna rebuild machine, want all of /home saved to other machine, rsync then reinstall to try $new ditro!) but I wouldn't recommend rsync for product grade backups; it'd get very complex very quickly trying to figure a way to do versioning (rsync would be really good for 'oops, I removed X file, but I'd copied it over to M machine, so I can recover', not very good at 'someone changed this file 4 days ago and now it doesn't do what I want, I'd like to go back to a previous version). at least in my estimation. -- Even the Magic 8 ball has an opinion on email clients: Outlook not so good. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos