On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 7:33 AM, neomatrix <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I need a help to setup 'rdiff-backup' on SLES server, and i require below. > > (I) Backup will be compressed in the backup server
rdiff-backup keeps a normal uncompressed copy of every file. Compression is only used for maintaining the history of the file changes. So you need to put your backup destination on a compressing filesystem. I've never tried that with linux and have no recommendations. > (II) Backup must retain the the attributes as original. Metadata is maintained by default. > (III) Backups will always create a new file rather than overwriting it rdiff-backup sends a rsync like set of deltas from the source computer to the backup computer. The previous backup is then used to create a new backup by applying those deltas. And a reverse delta is created and maintained that allows the current backup to be reverted to historical versions. I'm not sure if that satisfies your desire or not. I don't think you have any control of the process. I keep a local rdiff-backup of my files and a remote copy. I rsync the local copy to the remote. rsync has lots of options for how that is done. If you want details, I can give you my command line for that. > (IV) incremental backup daily. You get a increment every time you call rdiff-backup. So use cron to invoke it daily. If there are no changes between calls, then your backup won't be modified. note: I have a nightly backup script which invokes rdiff-backup. It does several other things, so it is my backup script I call from cron, not rdiff-backup directly. note2: There are some scripts running around that read rdiff-backup logs and statistics and email you a nightly summary. I do that for each of my machines I backup. > > If you have some doc or a pointer it would be great. > > Please help me out. > > Regards, > Neo > Greg _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
