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--- personal:portfolio:rsync-python-script [2014/07/26 20:20]
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+++ personal:portfolio:rsync-python-script [2014/07/26 20:23]
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 ====== Rsync Python script ======
-A Python script to wrap rsync to have rolling backups for the latest n days, deleting the old ones. Nice because in this approach rsync uses hard links to build incremental backups that appear as full backups.
+A Python script that wrap rsync to have rolling backups for the latest n days, deleting the old ones. Nice because in this approach rsync uses hard links to build incremental backups that appear as full backups.
+Of course it needs to be run under cron.
 Fur the actual rsync call that is used in this script see [[http://www.sanitarium.net/golug/rsync_backups_2010.html]]
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   print "** INFO: rsync backup completed - "+str(now.year)+"."+str(now.month)+"."+str(now.day)+" "+str(now.hour)+":"+str(now.minute)
+~~DISCUSSION~~