Question about mv and cp folder rotation

I have rsnapshot set up to run daily, weekly and monthly backups. It's working a treat, though I would like it to complete a bit quicker. One of the longest steps is copying daily.0 to daily.1 As the log extract shows below, nearly all of the initial folder shuffling is done with mv commands which is very quick. But the generation of daily.1 is done by cp from daily.0 which is slow. 

[2016-05-26T05] /opt/bin/rm -rf /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.6/
[2016-05-26T05] mv /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.5/ /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.6/
[2016-05-26T05] mv /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.4/ /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.5/
[2016-05-26T05] mv /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.3/ /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.4/
[2016-05-26T05] mv /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.2/ /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.3/
[2016-05-26T05] mv /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.1/ /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.2/
[2016-05-26T05] /opt/bin/cp -al /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.0 /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.1

Why doesn't daily.0 mv to daily.1? Sorry if this is a bleedin' obvious logic question, but I just don't get it at the moment.

On 26 May 2016 at 12:45, Phill Edwards <philledwards < at > gmail.com ([email]philledwards < at > gmail.com[/email])> wrote:
[quote]I have rsnapshot set up to run daily, weekly and monthly backups. It&#39;s working a treat, though I would like it to complete a bit quicker. One of the longest steps is copying daily.0 to daily.1 As the log extract shows below, nearly all of the initial folder shuffling is done with mv commands which is very quick. But the generation of daily.1 is done by cp from daily.0 which is slow. 

[2016-05-26T05] /opt/bin/rm -rf /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.6/
[2016-05-26T05] mv /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.5/ /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.6/
[2016-05-26T05] mv /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.4/ /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.5/
[2016-05-26T05] mv /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.3/ /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.4/
[2016-05-26T05] mv /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.2/ /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.3/
[2016-05-26T05] mv /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.1/ /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.2/
[2016-05-26T05] /opt/bin/cp -al /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.0 /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.1

Why doesn&#39;t daily.0 mv to daily.1? Sorry if this is a bleedin&#39; obvious logic question, but I just don&#39;t get it at the moment.

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AFAIK it&#39;s because it needs to create new hard links to the existing files.

poc

Phill Edwards wrote on 26.05.2016 at 13:45:
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Why doesn't daily.0 mv to daily.1? Sorry if this is a bleedin' obvious
logic question, but I just don't get it at the moment.

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Hi Phill

The daily.0 is moved to daily.1. Then a new daily.0 is created as a
hard-linked copy of daily.1 (former daily.0). Next the RSYNC step will
synchronize the daily.0 with recent changes from the backup source. Now
daily.0 will be different from daily.1 then (assuming that backup data
has changed somehow).

Clemens

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It copies daily.0 to daily.1, then rsync updates daily.0

On 05/26/2016 06:45 AM, Phill Edwards wrote:

[quote] I have rsnapshot set up to run daily, weekly and monthly backups. It's working a treat, though I would like it to complete a bit quicker. One of the longest steps is copying daily.0 to daily.1 As the log extract shows below, nearly all of the initial folder shuffling is done with mv commands which is very quick. But the generation of daily.1 is done by cp from daily.0 which is slow. 

[2016-05-26T05] /opt/bin/rm -rf /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.6/
[2016-05-26T05] mv /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.5/ /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.6/
[2016-05-26T05] mv /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.4/ /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.5/
[2016-05-26T05] mv /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.3/ /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.4/
[2016-05-26T05] mv /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.2/ /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.3/
[2016-05-26T05] mv /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.1/ /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.2/
[2016-05-26T05] /opt/bin/cp -al /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.0 /mnt/pme-nas2/Backups/daily.1

Why doesn't daily.0 mv to daily.1? Sorry if this is a bleedin' obvious logic question, but I just don't get it at the moment.

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bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition of MDM
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