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Comment on Rsync Snapshots: Space Saving & Fast Recovery by mrfsl

mrfsl — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:50:54 +0000

@tgr – great catch!

In writing this I definitely typed faster than I thought. Your method works great and showed me that I need to re-read some man pages. I checked one of my scripts and was actually using:

link_dest=`find /path/to/destination/* -type d -prune | sort | tail -n1`

…which also works but the -maxdepth option is definitely more intuitive. Thanks for the contribution.

Comment on Rsync Snapshots: Space Saving & Fast Recovery by trg

trg — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 20:32:35 +0000

Just wanted to add one caveat/issue with this:

Doing “link_dest=`find /path/to/destination -type d | sort | tail -n 1`” can sometimes have an unintended consequence… If what you’re backing up has subdirectories and is recent this will dig down into the backup for the link destination, which is not what you want…

To prevent that, instead make it (at least on a GNU find system)
“link_dest=`find /path/to/destination -maxdepth 1 -type d | sort | tail -n 1`”

Comment on Progamatically Comparing Debian Package Versions by mrfsl

mrfsl — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:41:07 +0000

One small edit – forgot to mention that if you have libdpkg-perl installed in Debian or Ubuntu you should also be able to access the man page for Dpkg::Version.

Comment on Rsync Snapshots: Space Saving & Fast Recovery by mrfsl

mrfsl — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:48:19 +0000

gdr – Thanks for the link. The paper by Mike Rubel is very well done.

Comment on Rsync Snapshots: Space Saving & Fast Recovery by gdr

gdr — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:33:51 +0000

rsnapshot implements this strategy in perl

http://rsnapshot.org

Comment on Metacity Compositing Switch by mrfsl

mrfsl — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 02:15:43 +0000

Super cool script. Simple and effective! Just the way I like it. There is something similar in Linux Mint under their “Desktop Settings” utility but this is simpler and faster for my needs.

Thanks!