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...des doesnt matter, use --link-dest for targets. However, that'll keep a backup for every time that you run it, by link-desting yesterday's copy. Y end up with a backup tree dir per day, with files hardlinked against all other backup dirs. My (and many others) here's solution is to mv $ancientbackup $today; rsync --del --link-dest=$yest source:$dirs $today creating gaps in the ancient sequence of days of backups - so I end up keeping (very roughly) 1,2,3,4,7,10,15,21,30,45,60,90,120,180 days old backups (of course this isnt how it works, there's some binary counting going on in there, so...

Hi, I used to rsync a /home with thousands of home directories every night, although only a hundred or so would be used on a typical day, and many of them have not been used for ages. This became too large a burden on the poor old destination server, so I switched to a script that uses "find -ctime -7" on the source to select recently used homes first, and then rsyncs only those. (A