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Re: Partition image on the fly



On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 07:41:59PM +0200, Andreas Rippl wrote:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> /bin/rm -rf /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.6/ 
> mv /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.5/ /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.6/ 
> mv /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.4/ /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.5/ 
> mv /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.3/ /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.4/ 
> mv /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.2/ /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.3/ 
> mv /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.1/ /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.2/ 
> /bin/cp -al /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.0/ /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.1/ 
> /usr/bin/rsync -avx --delete /home/ /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.0/home/
> /usr/bin/rsync -avx --delete --exclude=/swap /
> /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.0/root/
> touch /mnt/sda1/backup/daily.0/
> 
Andreas, why the touch above? just curious.

A



> The above backs up my /home and / partitions to a USB disk and rotates
> the last seven backups. Another big advantage is the reduced space
> consumption as only _changed_ files get backed up, unchanged files are
> just hardlinks. Would something like this be useful to you?
> 
> Hth
> -- 
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