Comments on: Incremental Backup http://tinodidriksen.com/2007/04/26/incremental-backup/ The words and ideas of Tino Didriksen Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:51:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tino Didriksen http://tinodidriksen.com/2007/04/26/incremental-backup/#comment-9652 Tino Didriksen Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:44:49 +0000 http://tinodidriksen.com/2007/04/26/incremental-backup/#comment-9652 I'd say go with http://www.rsnapshot.org/ or http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/ - they will do what you want, so no need to reinvent that wheel. I’d say go with http://www.rsnapshot.org/ or http://rdiff-backup.nongnu.org/ – they will do what you want, so no need to reinvent that wheel.

]]> By: Hendy http://tinodidriksen.com/2007/04/26/incremental-backup/#comment-9651 Hendy Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:20:47 +0000 http://tinodidriksen.com/2007/04/26/incremental-backup/#comment-9651 I'm not knowledgeable on scripts... how might this be modified to create a backup list like this (as opposed to just *.0, *.1, *.2...): backup.hour backup.day backup.week backup.month Doest that make sense? Some way to keep one for a reasonably far back time but build on top of it more recently as time moves on? I’m not knowledgeable on scripts… how might this be modified to create a backup list like this (as opposed to just *.0, *.1, *.2…):

backup.hour
backup.day
backup.week
backup.month

Doest that make sense? Some way to keep one for a reasonably far back time but build on top of it more recently as time moves on?

]]> By: Daniel http://tinodidriksen.com/2007/04/26/incremental-backup/#comment-5447 Daniel Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:46:56 +0000 http://tinodidriksen.com/2007/04/26/incremental-backup/#comment-5447 Thanks a lot! With some adaptation and a crontab, this was what I was trying to do with my little-to-nothing knowledge of scripting. Thanks a lot! Thanks a lot!
With some adaptation and a crontab, this was what I was trying to do with my little-to-nothing knowledge of scripting.

Thanks a lot!

]]> By: Tino Didriksen http://tinodidriksen.com/2007/04/26/incremental-backup/#comment-4674 Tino Didriksen Fri, 21 Sep 2007 18:24:23 +0000 http://tinodidriksen.com/2007/04/26/incremental-backup/#comment-4674 rdiff-backup essentially does all that rsync does and even uses the rsync protocol, but I needed something that would run without modification on Cygwin, RedHat 8, Mac OS X, as well as Fedora 7. rdiff-backup had such varying versions (RH8's 0.12.7 vs. Fedora's 1.0.5) that I felt better using rsync. Another thing is rdiff-backup's increment format. Reverse diffs will certainly result in less disk space eaten by increments, but I prefer having the actual files in the folder tree. For larger backups I may have to use rdiff-backup simply due to space constraints, but I am not quite there yet. rdiff-backup essentially does all that rsync does and even uses the rsync protocol, but I needed something that would run without modification on Cygwin, RedHat 8, Mac OS X, as well as Fedora 7. rdiff-backup had such varying versions (RH8′s 0.12.7 vs. Fedora’s 1.0.5) that I felt better using rsync.

Another thing is rdiff-backup’s increment format. Reverse diffs will certainly result in less disk space eaten by increments, but I prefer having the actual files in the folder tree. For larger backups I may have to use rdiff-backup simply due to space constraints, but I am not quite there yet.

]]> By: Anders http://tinodidriksen.com/2007/04/26/incremental-backup/#comment-4606 Anders Tue, 04 Sep 2007 21:39:19 +0000 http://tinodidriksen.com/2007/04/26/incremental-backup/#comment-4606 Have you tried rdiff-backup? Have you tried rdiff-backup?

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