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[Dave Howorth <dhoworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

J Beris wrote:
> I have a question about Rsync. Like several people here, I use an
> external USB disk to make daily backups of my critical data. For this, I
> have written a shell script which mounts the disk as necessary and then
> calls rsync to do the actual backup.
>
> This works very well, except that if I delete a file in my home
> directory, have rsync do its thing at night, then the next morning that
> deleted file is gone from my backup too, so I can only go back one day.
> This is nice for a disk crash, but not for restoring data that was
> deleted 4 days ago, for instance. Can someone tell me if it is possible
> to have rsync retain the data in the backup for say another 14 or 30
> days before purging them? I have looked at the man page, but haven't
> found an answer to my question there. Does someone have an idea, please?

Don't use rsync directly; use one of the backup systems that already
provide the functionality you want (and use rsync internally).

I use dirvish, I know of rdiff-backup, I expect there are others. I
don't know which are in current opensuse distributions.

Cheers, Dave
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