On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, Kshitiz wrote:
Dear Friends
Can anyone help me write a script for incremental backup using rsync to create multiple restore-point-backup that can be easily restored?
I feel a full backup once in 400 days, with hourly incremental, daily incremental and weekly incremental backup being rotated in a way in which 1 full backup followed by 24 hourly incremental backups, interspersed with 7 daily incremental backups and 5 weekly incremental backups may be protection enough for my data. What is the you all's expert opinion? Kindly suggest a better methodology please.
Would it be better if these backups are compressed and stored in tar format? Kindly guide please.
Regards and thank you all in advance Kshitiz
Why reinvent the wheel ? Look at rsnapshot. Been using it for a couple of years now.
regards,
Sharukh.