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I am just wondering what the criteria is for getting something added to the rsync resouces page, http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/resources.html. I have recently been working on a small little program, RSBackup, that I use to backup my computers to each other. Limiting the concern of a hardware failure causing me to lose any of my bits. Basically it takes the tutorial by Mike Rubel on using rsync to create snapshot based backups, http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/, wraps all of that up i...

...ommand line looks like so: rsync --archive --stats --numeric-ids --delete --partial --inplace --hard-links --exclude-from=/usr/local/rsb/conf/exclude.default.fbsd --rsync-path="/usr/local/bin/rsync" --rsh="/usr/bin/ssh -p 22 -i /usr/local/rsb/conf/id_dsa" --log-file=/var/log/rsbackup/$RSYNC_SERVER.log backups@$RSYNC_SERVER:/ /tank/backups/$RSYNC_SERVER (note, no trailing slash on destdir) The exclude file looks like this: /proc/* /dev/* /var/log/**.gz /var/log/**.bz2 /var/db/mysql/** /home/spork/admin/** /entropy /cdrom /mnt /dist/** /media/** /rescue/** /spool/obj/** /sys/**...

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Hello, I'm trying to figure out how to keep a mirror and 7 day incremental backup between to 2 mount points. I want to rsync everything from /mnt/production/ to /mnt/backup/production/ on the same server. Nothing fancy. But , I Want to utilize the --delete option for files that no longer exist on /mnt/production/ that have been on /mnt/backup/production/ for longer then 7 days. I

Hi all, we are just beginning to dive into rsync. I have limited experience with just playing around with the examples and reading all the docs that I can. I just read an interesting post from a developer that mentions cwrsync is a minimalistic rsync and thus things like permissions are not transfered, the post was from 2004. Here are my questions Windows (cw)Rsync Client --> Linux Rsync