Re: Hard Disk Organization
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 04:37:00PM +0800, Marcel Welschbillig wrote:
>
> I use a nifty program called mirrordir at home, i have thousands of
> MP3's DIVX movies, programs documents 40Gig worth. I run mirror dir at
> midnight every night and it keeps a mirror of the working drive. The
> great thing is it only copies new stuff and is very efficient, also if a
> file gets deleted accidentally it is not lost and can be retrieved if it
> is done before midnight. Disk mirroring is good but i like the delay
> factor using mirrordir.
You can use cp -au to make a recursive backup, copying only files that
were updated. You have to go an clean out old stuff every now and then,
because it doesn't do anything about deleting stuff from the destination
that has been removed from the source. rsync could do that. That way, you
don't have to worry about noticing that stuff is gone in time to save it.
Of course, that will eat up disk space really fast if you rename big files
or move them to different directories, etc.
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