Re: [rdiff-backup-users] My rdiff article on FedoraNEWS.ORG

[Gavin Henry]

David Hiltz said:
>
>   I use rdiff-backup and a Perl script to backup my entire network to a 2
>   terabyte ATA disk array (9 250gig drives).  My Perl script connects to
>   each server on my network, runs a remote df command to figure out what
>   filesystem are there, weeds out the ones it doesn't care about (eg.
> /tmp)
>   then backups each remote filesystem to the disk array.  Before it starts
>   the backup, if the space on the array is getting low, it removes the
>   oldest backups to make more room.  Pretty much takes care of itself.

Care to share it? :-)


>
>   I wish rdiff-backup had an option to remove incremental backups in the
>   middle of a backup series, not just the oldest.  I think this is
>   a wishlist item.
>
>> Thoughts:
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>> http://fedoranews.org/ghenry/rdiff/
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>> Thanks.
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