rsync - Nov 2003 - daily back (incremental backup )

Hello,


I have Novell Netware File server.  Which is mounted
as /mnt/novell on one of my Linux m/c. 
I want to take backup of  Novell Server to my Linux
m/c. I need everyday backup of Novell server to be
taken on Linux m/c.  I don't  want full backup every
day but I need an incremental backup. I do not want to
delete any old directory or files. 

I have taken script from rsync examples, and made
changes. . But it doesn`t work can someone help me. 

#directory to backup (source)
/mnt/novell      # novell server mounted everyday just
              #                # for backup purpose


#directory on  which backup back to be
taken(destination)
BSERVER=/home/bipin/

#sub-directory date wise for everyday's incremental
backup???
BACKUPDIR=`date +%Y%m%d`

OPTS="--backup --backup-dir=/home/bipin/$BACKUPDIR -a"

rsync $OPTS $BDIR $BSERVER/current  

above command creates directory current but doesnot
create any sub-directory backup-dir (date wise where
only latest updated or newly created files get
backedup). Can I get some guidance. 

Thanking you in advance. 

Bipin


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On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 13:21, Bipinchandra Ranpura wrote:
> Hello,...
> I have taken script from rsync examples, and made
> changes. . But it doesn`t work can someone help me. 
...

Here is my script.  It copies $1 to $2/date/ and deletes the mod(today,
$3) version from $3.  The clean up scheme leaves me with some old, more
more recent copies.

It is fast.  I mount windows machines vai smb and after the first
backup, can backup a whole 1.3GB machine in just a few minutes.

The results are similar to faubackup, without the reliance on inode
numbers.  There is a directory for each day, but files are only copied
when changed and unchanged files are all hard links to the same file.  I
think storeBackup works like this (just found it yesterday).
----
#!/bin/sh
 
src=$1
dest=`dirname "$2/dummy"`
count=$3
shift
shift
shift
 
last=`/bin/ls -d $dest/* | sort | tail -1`
last=`basename "$last"`
tmp="$dest/backup.$$.backup/"
now=`date +"%Y-%m-%d %H.%M.%S"`
rm -rf "$tmp"
/usr/local/bin/rsync -a $@ "--link-dest=../$last/" "$src"
"$tmp"
mv "$tmp" "$dest/$now"
 
# clean up
dir="$dest"
mod=$[ `date +"%d"` % $count]
 
while [ `/bin/ls "$dir" | wc -l` -gt $count ]
do
  file=`/bin/ls "$dir" | awk 'NR=='$count'{print $0}'`
  rm -rf "$dir/$file"
done