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...nson - MJ <mj at revmj.com> wrote: > rsync -av /src/ /dst/ && touch /dst/done Aaaaahhhh, knew I'd miss some detail. All the syncs are pushed to the backup server. But that does give me an idea. I guess I could do that on the source, then sync the flag file over. rsync -avH ${other_gubbins} / user at remote.machine:/dest/ && touch /etc/donefile && rsync -av ${some_other_gubbins} /etc/donefile user at remote.machine:/dest/ That (or some variation of it) could work.

As part of my backup system, I use Rsync to keep a copy of each server on one central backup server. This backup server then uses StoreBackup to keep multiple iterations of each clone directory. So that the StoreBackup archives don't keep adding "redundant" and misleading backups, I update a flag file with the current date/time before doing the Rsync update, and test to see if this