Re: Regarding tar and split

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas55@pobox.com>]

Take a look at "rsnapshot".  It uses "rsync --link-dest" and/or "cp - 
al" to do exactly what you like about "cp --backup=t".  It maintains  
a series of snapshots of the filesystem with separate copies of  
changed files but only one copy of unchanged files.

rsnapshot overlays all that with a simple automatic way of pruning  
the older snapshots after they have aged appropriately.

You may like it.

Rick

PS: This has gotten a bit far afield from "tar and split"...


On Oct 13, 2007, at 1:11 PM, Paul E Condon wrote:

> It doesn't appear from the man page that rsync has the equivalent of
> cp --backup=t