kleer001 Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 While at a couple different studios (DD, FrameStore, DNeg) I think I correctly recall that they had a system setup on Linux where your smaller files (not caches) would be saved to daily in a ".backup" folder next to the folder being backed up /usr/kleer/docs would be regularly backed up in (I think) /usr/kleer/.backup/docs And is was like that for lots of directories. Or something like that. I can't exactly remember. And the search terms are so vague I can't find what this particular backup workflow is called. I can't even recall if they're on a separate disk or on the same disk as the original path. This was really useful when trying to recover a mis-saved file or some other snafu and I'd love to implement it on my home machine, but what the freak is it?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunker Posted February 3, 2020 Share Posted February 3, 2020 cron job? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kleer001 Posted February 4, 2020 Author Share Posted February 4, 2020 19 hours ago, bunker said: cron job? Hahaha, yea, that's probably how it was implemented. That's how almost any regular function happens. But sadly that doesn't help with my question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bunker Posted February 4, 2020 Share Posted February 4, 2020 well, cron+rsync... https://serverfault.com/questions/189499/rsync-to-create-directory-based-on-date Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kleer001 Posted February 7, 2020 Author Share Posted February 7, 2020 Close! The winner is https://rsnapshot.org/ I finally remembered that the backup directories are ".snapshot" not ".backup" And yes, a cron job 100% Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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