Re: [OT] Building a new backup server

[Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:27 AM,  <m.roth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
>> No, rsync will only hardlink to instances of the same file in the same
>> location from previous runs.  Backuppc will link every file with
> <snip>
> True. But we have a directory structure like
>     .../servername
>           |
>           -> date-weeks-ago
>              date-weeks-ago-1
>              ...
>              date-yesterday
>                |-> (symlink) latest
> and the symlink gets reset after the backup's done.

Have you tried backuppc?  There are some tradeoffs because it makes an
extra hardlink into a pool directory tree where the name is a hash of
the content, but it takes care of all the other stuff for you and
would let you store a much longer history, especially if there are
duplicate copies of any of the files spread around.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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