Tools such as Back In Time or Flyback, modeled after Apple's Time Machine (like Ubuntu's TimeVault - unrelated to rsync i think).
This saves data, at the cost of a little more complexity, since you can't browse the old snapshots easily with a file browser, only with special tools or rdiff-backup itself. Rdiff-backup creates a mirror for the latest backup, but previous snapshots are kept as "deltas" (the reverse of what you'd expect from a differential backup), which contain information for rdiff-backup to rebuild the old file.
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I am using rsync through a GUI (Grsync), and currently have the below task at crontab: 0 15 DISPLAY:0 grsync -e 'default' My question is: how to log all rsync operations to a file I. :) I would like to ask you about logging in rsync. This may or may not be a big deal depending on usage. Hello everyone Thanks for accepting me here. However if a file is changed, the new version is backed up, keeping the old one on the previous snapshots, saving no space. It's easy to retrieve files from whatever snapshot, using a file browser. It saves space by creating hardlinks, so that the same file across snapshots isn't duplicated. I usually look for what the program does to the backups though, like what directory structure, what does it do with old deleted files, changed files, same files.įor instance, rsync can create directories with the date of the backup as its name, and it's structure is the same as what you're backing up (mirror). Grsync is in Ubuntu's Synaptic - make sure you installĪll this can of course be found by a bit of googling, but I thought When ready run a simulation backup and if all's OK run the actualīackup.
The 'Basic Options' tab is the important one. The other options are sort of self-explanatory, although I mustĪdmit never having bothered with the 'Extra Options' tab. exclude-from=".grsync/exclude" in order for the exclude fileĬreated earlier to be referenced by Grsync. In the 'Additional Options' field under the (Select 'Show Hidden Files' from the menu to see it), and type in the I made a folder named Grsync backups.įor directories that one wants to exclude from backup, you can You can backup to another hard drive, a partition or It's a front-end for the command line tool rsync and makesīacking up very easy and convenient for recent linux converts
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