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...adsen at operationsresearchgroup.com", shell=True) sys.exit(0) sync() # Running in crontab since 29/6/2011 10:07 # Dry-run Testline: rsync -avzn --stats --timeout=60 /media/rsync_gb01/movies/ bjorn at srv01:/home/bjorn/movies ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From:?Larry Irwin <mkitwrk at gmail.com> To:?rsync at lists.samba.org Date:?Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:50:01 -0400 Subject:?How to call rsync client so that is detects that server has gone away? ?Hi All, I have an rsync client that is not re-starting and/or timing out when the server processes die/go away... The client is rsync...

Hi TG, You can keep an up-to-date copy of the files/folders/pipes/etc. in the 100GB space using rsync, but not a true clone of the partition. To get a true clone of the boot partition, you'd need to boot from a rescue CD, mount the other machine's 100GB space and dd the boot partition device to a file on the 100GB space. You'd also probably want to get the Master Boot Record by

The scripts I use analyze the rsync log after it completes and then sftp's a summary to the root of the just completed rsync. If no summary is found or the summary is that it failed, the folder rotation for that set is skipped and that folder is re-used on the subsequent rsync. The key here is that the folder rotation script runs separately from the rsync script(s). For each entity I want