Backup Question, Preserving Hard Links

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 08:56:19PM -0400, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
> This sounds similar to what I am doing on several machines, as
> described at http://jrv.oddones.org/x300.html#backup.  

Yes, I think I will keep your script handy as I modify mine.

> So, I think you are saying that you have a parent filesystem and an
> on-line set of linked backups which you update incrementally
> (e.g. delete day 0, add day N).  Given an on-line set of linked
> backups for days 1 through N and a removable drive with linked
> backups for days 0 through N-1, it is easier to update the removable
> drive incrementally than it is to delete everything and copy the
> current on-line backups.

That is my plan.

Thanks,

-kb