Howdy, With my new fiber internet, my poor disks are getting a work out, and also filling up. First casualty, my backup disk. I have one directory that is . . . well . . . huge. It's about 7TBs or so. This is where it is right now and it's still trying to pack in files.
/dev/mapper/8tb 7.3T 7.1T 201G 98% /mnt/8tb Right now, I'm using rsync which doesn't compress files but does just update things that have changed. I'd like to find some way, software but maybe there is already a tool I'm unaware of, to compress data and work a lot like rsync otherwise. I looked in app-backup and there is a lot of options but not sure which fits best for what I want to do. Again, backup a directory, compress and only update with changed or new files. Generally, it only adds files but sometimes a file gets replaced as well. Same name but different size. I was trying to go through the list in app-backup one by one but to be honest, most links included only go to github or something and usually doesn't tell anything about how it works or anything. Basically, as far as seeing if it does what I want, it's useless. It sort of reminds me of quite a few USE flag descriptions. I plan to buy another hard drive pretty soon. Next month is possible. If there is nothing available that does what I want, is there a way to use rsync and have it set to backup files starting with "a" through "k" to one spot and then backup "l" through "z" to another? I could then split the files into two parts. I use a script to do this now, if one could call my little things scripts, so even a complicated command could work, just may need help figuring out the command. Thoughts? Ideas? Dale :-) :-)
