rsync - Jun 2004 - Q: rsync examples, missing parameters?

Hi,

I'm adapting the first script (backup to a central backup server with 7 day
incremental) from http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/examples.html web site
and ported it to Windows XP, as I need to save my files incrementally over
a week.

Script (Windows XP):
....
C:\rsync2>rsync --force --delete --backup 
--backup-dir=/home/bart2/backup/Thu  -ave ssh
/cygdrive/c/Doc/backup/desktop2/ 
bart2@192.168.0.100:/home/bart2/backup/backfull/ 
 >C:\Doc\backup\log\20040617_rsync.log
.
So for testing purpose, on my laptop under Windows XP I changes date 
earlier this Week
ans so on over 4 days, and on each day I modify some files and 
directories, create some
new files and directories, ....

My problem is that in /home/bart2/backup/%day% where %day% is 
(Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,...)
only files that existed before and modified on another day are backed 
up. Neither new
files nor directories are backed up, how come?

I suppose the script is doing his duty, but maybe I'm missing some 
parameters to save also new files
and directories in a recursive way?

PS: the "/home/bart2/backup/backfull/" is actually saving new files
and
directories. so I do not
       understand why in an incremental way it is different.

Thanks in advance,

Kind Regards,

Bart Zelsmann.

On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 04:39:41PM +0200, bzels123
wrote:
> My problem is that in /home/bart2/backup/%day% where %day% is
> (Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,...) only files that existed before and modified on
> another day are backed up. Neither new files nor directories are
> backed up, how come?
I think you're misunderstanding the backup option -- it makes a backup
of older files that get replaced in the main transfer, so new files have
nothing in the way to get backed up.  The %day% dirs would thus contain
the old version of any files that got replaced, allowing you to go back
in time several days (of course, if the file hasn't changed recently, it
would only exist in the main destination dir).

If your destination filesystem supports hard links, you may prefer to
use --link-dest and transfer the files directly into an empty %day%
destination dir (which would create a full copy in each %day% dir with
unchanged files hard-linked together).  Something like this:

YESTERDAY=/home/bart2/backup/Wed
TODAY=/home/bart2/backup/Thu
ssh -l bart2 192.168.0.100 rm -rf $TODAY
rsync -ave ssh --delete --backup --link-dest=$YESTERDAY
/cygdrive/c/Doc/backup/desktop2/ bart2@192.168.0.100:$TODAY

..wayne..