rsync - Dec 2005 - incremental backup help required

Hi,

This is my rsync command


/usr/bin/rsync  --compress \
                      --verbose \
                      --rsh=ssh \
                      --times \
                      --owner \
                    --group \
                   --ignore-times \
                   --links \
                  --perms \
                 --recursive \
                 --size-only \
                --delete \
                --force \
                --numeric-ids \
               --exclude-from=/etc/rsync.exclude \
               --stats \
               /etc  \
               root@target_machine:/home/backup/thismachine/

I am using the above commnd to take backups and i need to take a only
incremental backups Which option i have to use
and how to specify in source machine and target machine.

I think i have to use --backup-dir=DIR option or anything else.
PLease help me how to take only incremental backups daily.

thanks for your help
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I can answer this one! But mostly by directing you to an even better
answer that is already written.

Reading this article by Mike Rubel
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

Should give you some detailed idea of how to use the --link-dest
feature. 



There is a tool called 'dirvish' that I am told does all this and more,
using rsync as the underlying transfer mechanism 
http://www.dirvish.com/




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Sent: 07 December 2005 11:03
To: rsync@lists.samba.org
Subject: incremental backup help required

Hi,

This is my rsync command


/usr/bin/rsync  --compress \
                      --verbose \
                      --rsh=ssh \
                      --times \
                      --owner \
                    --group \
                   --ignore-times \ 
                   --links \
                  --perms \
                 --recursive \
                 --size-only \
                --delete \
                --force \
                --numeric-ids \ 
               --exclude-from=/etc/rsync.exclude \
               --stats \
               /etc  \
               root@target_machine:/home/backup/thismachine/ 

I am using the above commnd to take backups and i need to take a only
incremental backups Which option i have to use
and how to specify in source machine and target machine.

I think i have to use --backup-dir=DIR option or anything else.

PLease help me how to take only incremental backups daily.
 
thanks for your help

Den Dec 7, 2005 kl. 16:01 skrev Atwood, Robert C:
> I can answer this one! But mostly by directing you to an even better
> answer that is already written.
>
> Reading this article by Mike Rubel
> http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
>
> Should give you some detailed idea of how to use the --link-dest
> feature.
Or let rsyncbackup do incremental backups for you
http://rsyncbackup.erlang.no

Andreas
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