On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 5:04 AM, Sorin Srbu <sorin.srbu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
<snip>
> The way we currently do backups is to use rsync from the clients to two
> folders on an older server that rolls over every other week. This worked fine
> for a while, but the rsync is cumulative and the users generate a tremendous
> amount of data...
<snip>
You might want to check out the rsync switches --backup-dir and
--suffix. Using them some thing like this:
--delete --backup --backup-dir=$MIRROR_DIR/RsyncBckups --suffix=".$DATE"
allows you to keep an exact duplication of the original directory and
keeping the original files that were either deleted or overwritten in
a seperate backup directory with dated suffixes, which can be archived
on some regular basis. This should allow you to keep the simplicity
of rsync and control the cumulative size.
Brett
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