On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 20:12 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 19:59 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 19:48:41 -0400, Havoc Pennington <hp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Dan's stuff right now keeps incremental backups (it uses rsync with the > > > option to hardlink a new tree based on an old tree) and so the questions > > > are e.g. when do you throw out the old backups, etc. > > > > why does this discussion keep reminding me of rdiff-backup? > > Looks like an interesting project. Ryan Tomayko, a while back, was working on a front end/config interface to rdiff-backup that would allow the user to select files/dirs they wanted to have rdiff-backup get. He also had looked into interfacing it w/rpm-python to make sure it didn't grab files managed by rpm - or if it did only backing up those files that have changed since the rpm install. -sv
