From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 29 14:32:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CEE016A41F for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:32:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0915443D4C for ; Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:32:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 31506 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2005 00:32:41 +1000 Received: from 203-217-79-78.dyn.iinet.net.au (HELO ?192.168.13.3?) (203.217.79.78) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 30 Aug 2005 00:32:41 +1000 Message-ID: <43131C85.1070100@meijome.net> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:32:37 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org References: <20050828234043.H22315@maren.thelosingend.net> <20050829161506.E2522@maren.thelosingend.net> In-Reply-To: <20050829161506.E2522@maren.thelosingend.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: rsync and moving files [Re: backup w/ snapshots] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:32:42 -0000 Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: > * Svein Halvor Halvorsen [2005-08-28 23:53 +0200] > >> Does this sound reasonable? Is there any precautions I should take? Are >> there any other tools better suited for the task at hand? > > > > I'm responding to my own message. > > Let's say I happen to move all music from /music/artist - album/ to > /music/artist/album. Even though a local snapshot would handle this well, > rsync would create new files on the remote machine, and when I then take a > snapshot there, it will be HUGE! isn't that the whole point of having a backup? to have *another* copy of your files? and I guess that yes, if the files are new in the remote system, when you take a snapshot the difference with the previous snapshot will be the size of the new data (only guessing from how snapshots work in Linux, so feel free to flame ..err..correct me :) ) Beto