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I've just released Version 2.11 of rlbackup: http://www.math.ualberta.ca/imaging/rlbackup/ which provides a simple secure rsync-based mechanism for generating and recovering linked backups over the network, with historical pruning. Here are the main recent changes: Tue Jan 28 2004 Version 2.11 <bowman@math.ualberta.ca> The read-on...

...n tape of this machine, but I'd like to replace the daily backups by a disc-based setup. It would be good to be able to share the snapshot-folders with Samba, so our helpdesk can easily do restores. They are not trained in Linux. After doing some research I found three candidates: - Dirvish - Rlbackup - Rsync_snapshots by Mike Rubel The first two seem to be pretty elaborate, but are based on Rsync 2.5.6 and I'm wondering if that's going to give problems with the Rsync 2.5.5 on Netware. Can one safely mix versions? I use only these options: -rtv --delete --modify-windows=2 Also, I was w...

This is a patch to add an --rsync-exclude option to rsync-2.5.6cvs. File names in .rsync- (or .rsync+) are excluded (or included) from the file lists associated with the current directory and all of its subdirectories. This has advantages over --cvs-exclude for backing up large file systems since the .cvsignore files only apply to the current directory: unless the .cvsignore restrictions apply

...rent files. > > Anthony R Iano-Fletcher Anthony.Iano-Fletcher@nih.gov > http://cbel.cit.nih.gov/~arif > CBEL, CIT, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA. A good idea. I have implemented this as http://www.math.ualberta.ca/imaging/rlbackup/rsync-exclude-file.patch Unfortunately, backwards compatibility with the previous syntax rsync --rsync-exclude -axvH /here /there does not appear to be possible, because of deficiencies in the popt option routines relative to getopt_long: popt doesn't really handle optional arguments correc...

So I'm trying to write up a short script to do some backups over rsync. The goal is to have multiple client machines push the backups to the backup server nightly. The backup server will have a complete copy of the selected directories as well as revisions for the last 7 days. Here is the brief script I have. Btw if you're wondering about all the variables, I eventually want to set it to

...local_exclude_list (cvs-exclude) will not override a global exclude pattern in exclude_list, contrary to what one would expect. The patch below fixes all of these problems and adds the very flexible --rsync-exclude=FILE feature (useful for rsync-based backups; e.g. see www.math.ualberta.ca/imaging/rlbackup). I would very much appreciate it if this patch were incorporated into the next release of rsync to fix the unexpected behaviour described above and also to reduce the amount of post-release maintenance required to port --rsync-exclude to new releases. (Feel free to rename it as --recursive-exclu...

Help! i like to use rsync 'version 2.5.5 protocol version 26' to sync some Volumes over the Network. The Plan: At some day there will be a FileServer called 'fileserver' (the Master) and a FileServer called 'Yesterday' 'Yesterday' will always have the last night status from the 'fileserver' without any write access. So if the fileserver fails or