[Tfug] Linux backup

[Claude Rubinson]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 08:29:19PM +0200, christopher floess wrote:
> But the problem is that I'm not sure how the backups work. If for
> instance I backup files A, B, C in some directory, and then delete A
> and B, and then do another backup, does A and B disappear from the
> backup as well. I think I want version control actually. Something
> along the lines of git, where removing a file doesn't mean it's gone
> for good, it just means that it's gone from the current snapshot.

rsync has a --backup flag for just that use case.

C.