Re: [SLUG] Re: Backup notes from Mary's talk (28 Nov)

[Michael Chesterton <chesty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29/11/2008, at 9:59 AM, Mary Gardiner wrote:

> On 2008-11-28, Michael Chesterton <chesty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Very minor nitpick, rsync can save older data, and put them in
> > whatever dir you want.
> >
> > before rdiff-backup i used to use rsync --backup --backup-dir=$date-
> > based-dir
>
> Thanks for that: I am guessing from the rsync man page though that it
> isn't particularly careful to only store the differences and therefore
> may take up more space?

Right, if a file has changed, it copies the unmodified file to -- 
backup-dir
then syncs the file. If a file hasn't changed, it doesn't get copied  
to --backup-dir.


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