RSync , Hardlinks, Date > c't rsyncBackup.vbs

Sorry i'm a newbie

Kann man so etwas hier hineinbauen?

Artikel aus c't 21/2006
Das Windows-Skript rsyncBackup.vbs erstellt
Schnappschüsse Ihrer Arbeitsordner auf einem lokal angeschlossenen
NTFS-Laufwerk. Das verwendete Werkzeug rsync kopiert bei jedem Lauf
inkrementell nur Dateien, die seit der letzten Sicherung geändert wurden
- dank Hard-Links erscheint auf dem Ziellaufwerk aber jeder neue
Schnappschuss als Voll-Backup. Die zu sichernden Ordner und das
Zielverzeichnis tragen Sie mit einem Texteditor direkt in das Skript
ein. (kav)

I try to translate in english,
the script creates a directory with the name actual date -time.
rsync copies the first time all data in the this directory.
the second time it creates a new directory with the name actual date -time.
this time only new data is copied, the not new data are only hardlinks.

this means you have snapshots off all data of every time.
perhaps 8TB data on a 2TB harddisk. (windows cant see the difference of
hardlink or real file)

http://www.zyxelforum.de/c%CA%…wie-einbauen--t10497.html

or maybe it already exist ....

i tried rsnapshot, looks good so far.

but as far as i see, it does not use hardlinks and than of course i have no
access to older files (/history).

or is there any switch?

thanks god no crypto trojaner keeps the filename.
otherwise rsnapshot will overwrite with the cryptet files the uncrypted,
correct?

Nope. Hard links is exactly how rsnapshot works. From the rsnapshot home page:

Zitat

rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility based on rsync. rsnapshot makes it easy to make periodic snapshots of local machines, and remote machines over ssh. The code makes extensive use of hard links whenever possible, to greatly reduce the disk space required.

So great to hear,
do you have a link how to activate this in the plugin?

Zitat von ryecoaaron

Look at the rsnapshot plugin. It does this.

Zitat

There is no way to activate or deactivate it in the plugin.

OK, does it or does it not?