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2012 Apr 05
3
Using a namespace for providing access to mail snapshots for user based on-demand restoration of email backups
...r rsync based backup programs it uses hardlinks to save storage
space - so you can have a *lot* of backups (going back months, or even
years), where each snapshot only adds a little more to the total disk
space being used.
The snapshots are stored with the following filesystem layout:
/path/to/snapshotsdir/hourly.0
...
/path/to/snapshotsdir/hourly.4
/path/to/snapshotsdir/daily.0
...
/path/to/snapshotsdir/daily.7
/path/to/snapshotsdir/weekly.0
...
/path/to/snapshotsdir/weekly.4
/path/to/snapshotsdir/monthly.0
...
/path/to/snapshotsdir/monthly.12
/path/to/snapshotsdir/yearly.0
...
/path/to/snapshotsdir...