automatic hard linking

[Paul Lussier]

William Stearns <wstearns at pobox.com> writes:

> Good afternoon, all,
>  	(Sorry for the late reply!  :-)
>
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, t.littlefield at comcast.net wrote:
>
>> One of the cool features it offered was a series of hourly, nightly and
>> a monthly backup of files.  We kind of surmised that it was some sort of
>> hard linking of the same file name in a different directory...  i.e.
>>
>> ~/foo.txt
>>
>> hourly.0/~/foo.txt
>>

>  	This is exactly the approach I used in rsync-backup:
>
> http://www.stearns.org/rsync-backup/
>
>  	The script is currently set up to do nightly snapshots, but could 
> be tuned without too much trouble to do hourly snapshots if that was 
> needed.

If memory serves, there's a linux-based backup utility which does this
as well, also using rsync.  I vaguely remember it mentioned in Linux
Journal a few years back.

Check out either dirvish or bacula.  I think it's dirvish.
-- 
Seeya,
Paul