From: Doug Henderson <djndnbvg@gmail.com>
To: cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: "Copy until full" tool
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 03:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ1FpuNcurUd_zWQwdzovPou73-UTgt0n2E01X0pNTg3tX8QOQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6aac2f2a-77e9-43a0-e62c-f7d68b5f9f66@netfence.it>
On 17 January 2017 at 01:57, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I've got a 2TB backup HD which is filled with several copies (at different times) of the same data; in other words, I could have the following directories:
>
> Data20170117
> Data20170110
> Data20170103
> ...
> Data20161220
> User20170117
> User20170110
> User20170103
> ...
> User20161220
> DB20170117
> DB20170110
> DB20170103
> ...
> DB20161220
>
>
>
> Now I periodically need to copy this HD to another one, which is, alas, only 1TB.
> So I'd like to only transfer the most recent copies, either until the disk is full or by specifying a number of "copies" to keep. Of course the older ones should be deleted.
>
> Think rsync (which I've been using extensibly), but with a size barrier.
This is not specifically a cygwin solution, but I am using it with my
cygwin installation as well as interesting parts of my windows
installation.
Restic is a program that does backups right.
home page: https://restic.github.io/
documentation: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
source: https://github.com/restic/restic
Read the home page. I think it meets its design goals very well.
HTH,
Doug
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