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I'm trying to rsync a folder like so - rsync -aP --delete /home/share_20110801 /lastbackup/ share Under the /lastbackup folder there is a "share" folder. I'd like to rsync all the contents of the "share _20110801" folder directly under the the "share" folder under /lastbackup. I know I can add the trailing slash to the source directory to accomplish th...

Hi list, how to perform a differential backup using rsync? On web there is a great confusion about diff backup concept when searched with rsync. Users says diff because it copy only differences. For me differential is backup from last full backup. Other users says that to perform a differential backup I must include in rsync command: --backup --backup-dir=/some/path but from manual page of

...because it copy only differences. For me differential is > backup from last full backup. > You can use "newer" options of the find command and pass the file list to rsync or scp to "backup" only those files that have changed since the last run. You can keep a file like .lastbackup and timestamp it (touch) at the start of the backup process. Next backup you compare the current timestamp with the timestamp on this file. HTH, -- Arun Khan

...e last backup if the file hasn?t changed. Under certain circumstances the file doesn?t exist in the last backup, but in the second last backup ore somwhere else. If for example a backup couldn?t be completed (maybe because of a loss of power) then the next day all the files which are not in the lastbackup are backuped again even though they exist in the second last backup. Those files could for example be hardlinked to the secondlast backup. Is there a way to achive this? (maybe through something like multiple --link-dest options) regards norbert

...rences. For me differential is >> backup from last full backup. >> > > You can use "newer" options of the find command and pass the file list > to rsync or scp to "backup" only those files that have changed since > the last run. You can keep a file like .lastbackup and timestamp it > (touch) at the start of the backup process. Next backup you compare > the current timestamp with the timestamp on this file. > > HTH, > -- Arun Khan > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https:...

On 11/09/2015 09:22 PM, Arun Khan wrote: > You can use "newer" options of the find command and pass the file list > to rsync or scp to "backup" only those files that have changed since > the last run. You can keep a file like .lastbackup and timestamp it > (touch) at the start of the backup process. Next backup you compare > the current timestamp with the timestamp on this file. Absolutely none of that is necessary with rsync, and the process you described is likely to miss files that are modified while "find" ru...