From: "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: OT [Archive techniques] What to do when it gets massive
Date: 12 Aug 2004 09:29:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4nacx0bi2b.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3hdr95ed1.fsf@newsguy.com> (Harry Putnam's message of "Wed, 11 Aug 2004 20:34:02 -0500")
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, reader@newsguy.com wrote:
> Right now I'd like to start rsyncing to dated mirrors one month at a
> time. However I see no way to do this without having major overlap.
> I've wondered if I just removed all the numbered files but left the
> .agentview files in place if the agent will just continue with only
> new messages it hasn't seen. If that is the case, then that would be
> one way to do it.
Look at rsnapshot, it automates this by doing a hard-link copy and
then rsync over the copy. That way you only replace the files that
have changed but your disk usage is not significantly increased.
You can do this manually on the command line, but rsnapshot automates
it.
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-12 13:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-12 1:34 Harry Putnam
2004-08-12 13:29 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2004-08-13 1:59 ` Harry Putnam
2004-08-16 17:35 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-08-16 18:02 ` Harry Putnam
2004-09-02 13:07 ` Kai Grossjohann
2004-09-04 19:37 ` Harry Putnam
2004-09-07 11:12 ` Kai Grossjohann
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