From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58264 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Ted Zlatanov" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: OT [Archive techniques] What to do when it gets massive Date: 16 Aug 2004 13:35:39 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Message-ID: <4nhdr3t28k.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <4nacx0bi2b.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1092679122 19783 80.91.224.253 (16 Aug 2004 17:58:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 17:58:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M6805@lists.math.uh.edu Mon Aug 16 19:58:30 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Bwlkb-0004lO-00 for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 19:58:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Bwljj-0004rK-00; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:57:35 -0500 Original-Received: from util2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.23]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1Bwlje-0004rF-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:57:30 -0500 Original-Received: from justine.libertine.org ([66.139.78.221] ident=postfix) by util2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Bwljd-00033m-BH for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:57:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.bwh.harvard.edu (sysblade0.bwh.harvard.edu [134.174.9.44]) by justine.libertine.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACBA93A003C for ; Mon, 16 Aug 2004 12:57:28 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 22672 invoked from network); 16 Aug 2004 17:49:19 -0000 Envelope-Sender: tzz@lifelogs.com Envelope-Recipients: reader@newsguy.com, ding@gnus.org, Original-Received: from asimov.bwh.harvard.edu (HELO asimov) ([134.174.9.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.bwh.harvard.edu (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 16 Aug 2004 17:49:19 -0000 Mail-Followup-To: "Harry Putnam" , ding@gnus.org Original-To: "Harry Putnam" X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" In-Reply-To: (Harry Putnam's message of "Thu, 12 Aug 2004 20:59:59 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58264 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:58264 On Thu, 12 Aug 2004, reader@newsguy.com wrote: > I'm probably overlooking something fundamental but I don't see how > this is really any different than normal rsync, except for disk space > issue due to hardlinks. > > I didn't see a way to not have major overlap between monthly archives. > That is, say on 8/30/04 my rsnpshot setup starts writing to a new > archive. Its still based on files under ~/News/agent/nntp right? so > whatever is in there will be copied over to the new archive. > Including many if not all that were there for the previous month. Only files that have changed between A and B will be copied, yet you will have two directories, one with the state of things from date A, the other with the state of things from date B. Files no longer in existence at date B will be deleted in the B directory, but since they are hardlinked they will still exist in the A directory. I think this is exactly what you're looking for, based on your letter, but I'm probably missing something too :) Ted