Re: rsync --delete vs rsync --delete-after
On 2024-01-17, Default User wrote:
> BTW(2), I do use rsnapshot with cron jobs to back up the internal SSD
> to the primary backup drive daily (and weekly, monthly, yearly). But I
> am not sure if I could also use it to do copies of the primary backup
> drive to the secondary backup drive (maybe using an additional
> configuration file)?
You can safely rsync entire rsnapshot backups if you use --hard-links
option to preserve links set by rsnapshot. You have to rsync "entire"
rsnapshot directory else it can't set correct hard links.
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