Re: [9fans] venti conf

[Latchesar Ionkov <lucho@ionkov.net>]

I use vac (and sometimes vacfs) on my Linux.

archdir=/archives/`date +%Y/%m/%d`/$archbase
mkdir -p $archdir
lastvac=`find /archives -name $archname-*.vac 2>/dev/null | sort | tail -1`

if [ "x$lastvac" != "x" ] ; then
       d="-d $lastvac"
else
       d=""
fi

thisvac=$archname-`date +%Y-%m-%d`.vac
vac $d -f /tmp/$thisvac $* && mv -f /tmp/$thisvac $archdir/$thisvac && \
       vac -m -f /archives/archives.vac `find /archives -maxdepth 1
-mindepth 1 -type d`

If I mount /archives/archives.vac with vacfs I see tree similar to the
one in plan9 (/2008/12/24/...). I can also mount particular day using
the /archives/2008/12/24/*.vac score.

   Lucho


On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 8:19 AM, hugo rivera <uair00@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am a little confused about setting up venti (on linux).
> I followed the instructions found on the wiki, and venti is up. But
> now I am lost; as far as I understood (from the man pages) I have to
> run vac every time I want to backup something and then unvac it every
> time I want to recover it, right? I heard many times, here and
> elsewhere, that you can configure venti to perform a backup of the
> whole system say at 3:00 am, then am I supposed to create some kind of
> rc script to do this (using vac, of course)? and where yesterday fits
> into this? I feel that I am missing a big part here. I want to be able
> to backup my home directory every day at 3:00 am.
> Sorry if the question has an obvious answer, but I cannot see the
> whole venti picture yet.
> --
> Hugo
>
>