On Jan 30, 2008 8:26 AM, William L. Maltby <CentOS4Bill@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 17:14 +0100, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote:
> >
> > Marcelo Roccasalva wrote:
> > > On Jan 30, 2008 11:24 AM, Jerry Geis <geisj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >> hi all,
> > >>
> > >> I use rsync to copy/backup ALL my stuff to another disk.
> > >>
> > > IMHO, rsync is overkill here. I would:
> > >
> > > mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/backup; mkdir /mnt/backup/month.day.year
> > > cd /home;find . | cpio -vdump /mnt/backup/mon.day.year
> >
> > how about cp -a ?
>
> How about "find -newer" to just back up things that have been added or
> changed? A big space saver. *However*, this leaves things deleted since
> the previous backup(s) in the previous archives. A *good* or *bad*
> thing? Depends on what you want to achieve.
>
> Rsync can handle that situation for you, and so is better if you don't
> want to keep deleted files around.
>
> The cpio solution offers a lot, most beneficial here is the ability to
> bzip the archive (anticipating it won't be frequently used), saving a
> lot of space.
>
As long as the majority of the files are not plain text - I have had
really bad results using bzip2 on text files - specifically, massive
file corruption. I have had to go back to pre-bzipped archives to
rebuild these files - not a fun task.
I'd go with cpio if rsync causes problems. YMMV.
mhr
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