The backups on the archive server appear as complete copies of directories of
the backed up machines. There will appear to be one complete backup for each
day - this lets you find/restore a consistent set of files from a particular
day.
The script cleverly avoids copying files that have not changed. It economises
on disk use by only keeping one copy of each file - but makes that one copy
appear in the various daily archives.
The idea is that one central archive server initiates backups on several other
machines.
This script works well where you have many files that do not change from day to
day, eg word processing documents. It is not so good where most of your files
change frequently - but will still work.
If you want to know more see RsyncBackup-1.30.README
You may download this software in a variety of formats. Some are specific to particular operating systems or architectures, see below:
| Target | URL | Build Date |
|---|---|---|
| CentOS 4 noarch | RsyncBackup-1.26-1.1.noarch.rpm | Wed Mar 04 2009 |
| CentOS 5 noarch | RsyncBackup-1.29-1.1.noarch.rpm | Sun Jul 05 2009 |
| CentOS 6 noarch | RsyncBackup-1.30-1.1.noarch.rpm | Mon Nov 14 2011 |
| CentOS 6 src | RsyncBackup-1.30-1.1.src.rpm | Mon Nov 14 2011 |
| CentOS 6 tar | RsyncBackup-1.30.tar.gz | Thu Nov 10 2011 |
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