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#6 Re: Backing up files Posted by Steve (82.41.xx.xx) on Thu 8 Sep 2005 at 07:51 Creating a gzip'd tar file of a couple of directories and rotating them should be simple enough: #!/bin/sh # Create temporary tar file of /etc, /home, etc. tar -czvf tmp.tar.gz /etc /home /var/lib/dpkg # Recycle older ones mv 4.tar.gz 5.tar.gz mv 3.tar.gz 4.tar.gz mv 2.tar.gz 3.tar.gz mv 1.tar.gz 2.tar.gz # move temporary one into placwe mv tmp.tar.gz 1.tar.gz Still rsnapshot doesn't create compressed archives, because it is more space efficient. Despite containing a weeks worth of backups only changed files are stored after the initial literal copy. So in practise storing things uncompressed saves you space. Steve --
Creating a gzip'd tar file of a couple of directories and rotating them should be simple enough:
#!/bin/sh # Create temporary tar file of /etc, /home, etc. tar -czvf tmp.tar.gz /etc /home /var/lib/dpkg # Recycle older ones mv 4.tar.gz 5.tar.gz mv 3.tar.gz 4.tar.gz mv 2.tar.gz 3.tar.gz mv 1.tar.gz 2.tar.gz # move temporary one into placwe mv tmp.tar.gz 1.tar.gz
Still rsnapshot doesn't create compressed archives, because it is more space efficient. Despite containing a weeks worth of backups only changed files are stored after the initial literal copy.
So in practise storing things uncompressed saves you space.
Steve --
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