Re: Hard link / rsync backup strategy successful

Chander Ganesan  wrote: 
 
> I suppose you just have to be careful to make a copy of the cluster
> before trying to start it up (lest you break an older or newer
> backup).
 
Yeah, you don't want to get confused and have the warm standby using a
hard link to a backup.  The trick is to *only* use the cp -l from one
backup copy to another, and then only update the new copy with rsync. 
If you keep that straight, it's not too hard....
 
-Kevin