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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Compare file dates before copy Post 303021440 by Neo on Thursday 9th of August 2018 09:43:14 AM
Old 08-09-2018
rsync is a good way to make backups.

There are 100s of ways to do things on Linux, so always do what you like.

However, when I rsync backups, for example database dump backups, I keep the file names in each file:

Code:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 409715952 Jun  1 22:30 main_masterdump_2018-06-01-22.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 409688854 Jun  2 22:30 main_masterdump_2018-06-02-22.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 409982101 Jun  3 22:30 main_masterdump_2018-06-03-22.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 409919476 Jun  4 22:30 main_masterdump_2018-06-04-22.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 409866365 Jun  5 22:30 main_masterdump_2018-06-05-22.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 409877826 Jun  6 22:30 main_masterdump_2018-06-06-22.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 409882688 Jun  7 22:30 main_masterdump_2018-06-07-22.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 410654112 Jun  8 22:30 main_masterdump_2018-06-08-22.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 411599782 Jun  9 22:30 main_masterdump_2018-06-09-22.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 412574869 Jun 10 22:30 main_masterdump_2018-06-10-22.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 414508311 Jun 11 22:30 main_masterdump_2018-06-11-22.sql.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 410308454 Jun 12 22:30 main_masterdump_2018-06-12-22.sql.gz

You will be a wiser sys admin to include dates in your filenames.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

rfstat

RFSTAT(1)							Rfio User Commands							 RFSTAT(1)

NAME

       rfstat - get information about a file or directory

SYNOPSIS

       rfstat directory
       rfstat filename

DESCRIPTION

       The  rfstat  program  provides an interface to the shift remote file I/O daemon (rfiod) for getting information about a remote directory or
       file.  The filename or directory argument is either a remote file name of the form:

	      hostname:path

       or a local file name (not containing the :/ character combination).  The output from the rfstat command gives information similar  to  that
       of the ls -il command for listing local files or directories, one field per line.

EXAMPLE

       rfstat /tmp

       Device	       : 802
       Inode number    : 2
       Nb blocks       : 16
       Protection      : drwxrwxrwt (41777)
       Hard Links      : 13
       Uid	       : 0 (root)
       Gid	       : 0 (root)
       Size (bytes)    : 4096
       Last access     : Wed Jun 15 07:18:10 2011
       Last modify     : Wed Jun 15 07:18:10 2011
       Last stat. mod. : Wed Jun 15 07:18:10 2011

SEE ALSO

       rfio_stat(3), rfiod(1)

NOTES

       rfstat does not support regular expressions (regexp(5)) in the directory or filename argument.

AUTHOR

       LCG Grid Deployment Team

LCG
								      $Date$								 RFSTAT(1)
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