On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:59:22 +0000
Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk> wrote:

> 
> 	Hello,
> 
> I've considered a script which does something like this:
> 1.) Clone existing backup into a new directory by creating identical
>     directories and hardlinks to the existing files.

Rsync can do that. Check the --link-dest option.

> 2.) Use "rsync" to update that.
> 
> But I'm wondering whether somebody else has already done that. And
> it would of course not preserve the ownerships.

Maybe you can keep an mtree file with each backup?

Kind regards
dieter


> 
> 	Kind regards
> 
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> Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/
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