[mythtv-users] Mirroring root partition on SSD to a hard drive -- bad idea?

Calvin Dodge caldodge at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 16:05:55 UTC 2016


I'd never heard of rsnapshot. Thanks.

Calvin Dodge

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 1:18 AM,  <mythtv at phipps-hutton.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
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> Quoting Calvin Dodge <caldodge at gmail.com>:
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>> For backups I do something like this, because it lets me keep multiple
>> old version of files.
>>
>> 1) designate an archive location
>> 2) Every day, make a copy of files in that location with "cp -al" (the
>> -l means "make hard links of files, rather than copying them) to a new
>> directory (my script creates on named YYYYMMDD). For me the location
>> is /backups, with the rsync directory (see step 3) being
>> /backups/latest, with daily directories like /backups/20160101,
>> /backups/20160102, etc.
>> 3) rsync -a --delete source to destination. Since any files will be
>> deleted and replaced, rather than changed, the old versions of such
>> files will be safe in those daily directories.
>>
>> Calvin
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> I think you just reinvented rsnaphot
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