On 01/02/18 12:28, Richard Hector wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a couple of dirvish servers which are local to the machine > they're backing up, for convenience. I'd like to replicate those backups > offsite. Does it sound reasonable, efficient etc to simply rsync with -H > (to preserve hardlinks) the entire vault to another machine? > > Having followed instructions somewhere (which I can no longer find), I > have 'current' and 'attic' directories containing my vaults; I plan to > add a 'remote' directory containing vaults rsync'd from elsewhere. Sound > sane?
Actually I can see two flaws with that already. Firstly, it will have to scan through all the unchanging old images every time. Secondly, it will be susceptible to the whole vault disappearing if it's deleted at the source end. Better perhaps is to copy each tree as it's created, using dirvish itself. That would probably need a symlink maintained pointing to the most recent image - as long as dirvish can follow that. Richard _______________________________________________ Dirvish mailing list [email protected] http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish
