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2003 Sep 05
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new option suggestion '--backup-only'
...ugh at me...) I want to use rsync with LVM snapshot to make incremental backups like below: 1) Make LVM snapshot of file system and mount it. 2) Compare it to yesterday's snapshot, and backup files which are updated or deleted. ex) rsync -a --delete --backup --backup-dir=/backup/backup_on_$DATE 3) Delete yesterday's snapshot. The problem is that LVM snapshots are read-only, so I need rsync not to modefy any destination files. I made trial patch against latest CVS, and this works fine for me. With this patch, new options '--backup-only' is added, and the '--backu...