New Backup Idea?...

[jhyland87]

So these backups are kinda killing my server, they are taking up way too much space, and way too much time. I have it backup locally, then another script will rsync them to another server.

I see you cant do the backups that will only backup if the files have changed, if you dont have it tar them up.

What if I modify the script, before it tries to backup the users folder/database, it will just "ls -la |grep user_name", get the value of the folder size, then store it into an array in a script stored in /scripts.

Next time the backups run, it will do the same thing, if the size is different.. it will backup the directory, and update the array.

Same thing for the database.

Whatcha think?

[jhyland87]

I was trying

ls -la |grep .emacs | awk '{print $6, $7, $8}'

But that just returns the d.m.y, I guess I could use

du -sh user_name

Whatcha think?

[Spiral]

Let's take a bit of a step backwards here for a moment ....

What exactly is it that you are really trying to do? And why?

From the look of your posts, it sounds like you are trying to re-invent
incremental backups because what you described is sort of the meaning
of incremental by definition. I am just curious what it is that you are
really doing and what the real issue is that motivates you doing this.