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Creating hard drive backup images efficiently

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Mar 15, 2026266 views

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We are in the process of pruning our directories to recuperate some disk space. The 'algorithm' for the pruning/backup process consists of a list of directories and, for each one of them, a set of rules, e.g. 'compress *.bin', 'move *.blah', 'delete *.crap', 'leave *.important'; these rules change …

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I had a system for dropping aged backups from an partition of backup tarballs. Each host had it's own directory. Within each directory I would define a file (e.g. ) that my pruner would read and run a find against. The problem it encountered was whe…

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