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Hello Folks, I happened to have won atleast something because my backup off the site is working absolutely well at the scheduled interval. But I am having one question, which I know this community could help me getting it down and having everything working the way I really want. This is about having increamental backup. Here's the script I thought, If Include it in the crontab might work but

I've been running rsync as a cygwin task on Windows Server 2008 for about two months now. I'm using the --link-dest option to do a daily 'snapshot' of the contents of a server containing about 10TB of data, about 13 million files, to a Linux based NAS server. Things started out great but I soon noticed that the time take to complete was slowly incrementing. It started at around

Any ideas anyone? I still need at least a weekly backup of all data. The current workaround is just for the most active directories. Are there any diagnostics I can do which might shed some light on this? Thanks JohnOn 4 Jan 2019 09:53, John Simpson via rsync <rsync at lists.samba.org> wrote: > > Kevin > > The link-dest parameter is a single directory (the previous day's

Kevin The link-dest parameter is a single directory (the previous day's directory), the destination is today's directory. I haven't tried deleting a backup, there's no particular need in space terms, at the current rate there's enough space for several years of daily backups. I've reverted to daily backups on a small subset of the total; the full backup now takes