On Nov 7, 2007 4:42 PM, n schembr <<a href="mailto:nschembr@yahoo.com">nschembr@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I use the rsync with the backup option. Old files are stored by date and hour.<br><br> # $base_dir = "mail1.example.com:/"; #remote<br> $base_dir = "/"; # local<br><br> $rsync_dir = "/media/mail1";
<br> $old_dir = "/media/mail1/backup/";<br><br> $date= `date +%Y_%m_%d/%H`;<br> chop $date;<br><br> $exclude = "--exclude=media/ --exclude=vmware/ --exclude=backup/ --exclude=var/ --exclude=sys/ --exclude=proc/ --exclude mnt/ ";
<br> $cmd = "rsync --delete --delete-after -aHv $exclude --backup --backup-dir=$old_dir$date/ $base_dir $rsync_dir ";<br><br><br><br>Nicholas A. Schembri<br>State College PA USA<br><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">
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</a><br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><br><br>Here is a great article by our own MarkD. It's a pretty good intro to rsync backups.<br><br><a href="http://www.borkware.com/rants/rsync-backups/">http://www.borkware.com/rants/rsync-backups/
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