[Discuss] Disk recovery utilities - dealing with deleted files

[Edward Ned Harvey (blu)]

> From: discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org [mailto:discuss-
> bounces+blu=nedharvey.com at blu.org] On Behalf Of Rich Braun
> 
> Lesson learned: obviously, I'm going to change that cron job to some sort of
> sequestration method:  move the files someplace before this rsync, don't
> ever
> delete them until I manually confirm. (Anyone else have a script for that?
> It'll be a bit hairy to write from scratch...)

If the destination supports it, I would highly recommend rsnapshot.  Or better yet, zfs.  ;-)  But seriously, given that you're currently using rsync, there's a very good chance you can support rsnapshot, which is rsync-based and works great.  (Albeit confusing to configure the first time.)