I'm using rsync on my Ububtu Linux server to take a time machine like backup of the system. Every hour, a cronjob runs the following script (partial excerpt):
rsync -a --link-dest=/backup/current --delete-excluded
--exclude-from=/root/bin/backup.exclude / /backup/$date
rm -f /backup/current
ln -s /backup/$date /backup/current
$date has the file name in the format yyyymmddhhmm
I'm finding the backup volume (/backup
) is filling at a much higher rate than I might have expected. What I'd like to do, is be able to produce some kind of report every hour when the script runs, that lists the files that where modified.
Does rsync
have the capability of doing this, or if not, can you suggest a method of producing the report, maybe by parsing all the files in the directory $date
and listing any file which only has a single hard link associated with it.
I'm not looking for any kind of formatted report, just a simple text file listing modified files.