similar to: incremental backup preserving extended attributes

Hi, I have 2 linux machines, SOURCE and DEST on a network. I create some snapshots of the file structure on SOURCE and these snapshots have extended attributes. I want to copy the snapshots from SOURCE over to DEST over the network, but I don't want to lose the information on the extended attributes. Is there a way to do this using the samba protocol? Or do I have to modify the source code to

I'm using rsync to do an incremental backup of my desktop here, to a remote server as follows: #/usr/bin/bash old=$(date -d 'now - 1 week' +%Y-%m-%d) new=$(date +%Y-%m-%d) rsync -avP --delete --link-dest=../$dir /home/bakers bakers at perturb.org:/home/bakers/backup/$new/ This is actually working GREAT! The only problem is that sometimes the cronjob won't complete (internet is

Hi, I am trying to use rsync for incremental backup and I am facing some issues. I would like to ask your help to understand what is going on and have the proper command line. 1) my goal is I the following folders: ./dest: file3.txt ./orig: file1.txt   file10.txt  file2.txt   file20.txt And I would like to have as incremental backup ./dest: backup      file1.txt     file2.txt  file3.txt

Hello, I have Novell Netware File server. Which is mounted as /mnt/novell on one of my Linux m/c. I want to take backup of Novell Server to my Linux m/c. I need everyday backup of Novell server to be taken on Linux m/c. I don't want full backup every day but I need an incremental backup. I do not want to delete any old directory or files. I have taken script from rsync examples, and

I current do some rsync backups with a command like so every day rsync -az -e ssh --stats --delete --exclude "stuff" / user@server:/home/user/ What I want to do is have some incremental backups in there in subdirectories. So, for example, something like this on the remote server /home/user/something.tuesday /home/user/something.friday I thought the --backup --backup-dir Switches were

Hi! I use rsync batch mode for incremental backups. That is, I create an on-line backup with rsync, and use the --write-batch flag to additionally generate my delta, which I send off-site. To restore, I download a full backup and apply the deltas with --read-batch. This is quite a lovely setup, in principle. However, restore has give me problems. Before I detail them, let me ask: Are a lot

Hi, Presently I have the latest full backup in a 'current' directory and 30 day incrementals in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format directories. Without changing that directory structure I'd like the 'YYYY-DD-MM' directories to contain the full system hardlinked (when applicable) to 'current'. What rsync command-line options could provide me with this? Thanks,

I read the following hint at: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/#Incremental mv backup.0 backup.1 rsync -a --delete --link-dest=../backup.1 source_directory/ backup.0/ I simply want to maintain a dated backup of a server so that I could always go back to a certain date. I would like to keep this structure for each day for the last seven days, then one weekly snapshot for

Hello, Andrew Trigdell's original rsync paper (actually thesis) discussed the idea of using rsync to make incremental tape backups based not on whole files but rather parts of files. Sadly, this functionality is not actually present in the rsync program. I'd like to explore adding this ability. There are basically three things that need to be done to enable efficient (partial-file)

Hi, This is my rsync command /usr/bin/rsync --compress \ --verbose \ --rsh=ssh \ --times \ --owner \ --group \ --ignore-times \ --links \ --perms \ --recursive \ --size-only \

Normally I would use the --link-dest option to do this but I can't since I'm rsyncing from a Mac to a Samba share on a Linux box and hard links don't work. What I want to do is create a 10 day rotating incremental backup. I used the first script example on the rsync examples page as a template. The only thing I changed was the destination to be a local directory and paths for

Hi Kevin, Thanks for your quick response. The rsyncd.conf file looks like: charset = utf-8 [user] path = /c/user comment = "" use chroot = true uid = root gid = root read only = false auth users = admin I'm still confused about how to specify the path. The actual UNIX path is: /c/user/snapshots/rsync_test/last I've tried: --link-dest=snapshots/rsync_test/last

Hi, To do incremental backups I am presently using --backup-dir=/backup/host/$TODAY and the full backup is written to /backup/host/current. With this system incremental directories only contain deleted files and "current" contains the full backup. Would it be more efficient to use --link-dest=/backup/host/$YESTERDAY and write the main backup to /backup/host/$TODAY ? That way each

Folks, Kevin Korb wrote: > Have you considered more advanced methods such as subvolume snapshots > provided by ZFS and BTRFS? At work we were forced to abandon rsync > - --link-dest because of the amount of time it takes to delete old > backups when the data is primarily many millions of small files > (shared web hosting company). We don't have more advanced methods like

rsyncd doesn't take unix paths. You must adapt your --link-dest to contend with however the rsycd module is defined in rsyncd.conf. On 1/11/25 9:52 PM, Anthony LaTorre via rsync wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to figure out why a script works when using SSH but not > when using the rsync protocol. When I run the following command: > > rsync -aPh

Hi all, I'm trying to figure out why a script works when using SSH but not when using the rsync protocol. When I run the following command: rsync -aPh --link-dest=/user/snapshots/rsync_test/last /home/user/rsync_test root at readynas.internal:/user/snapshots/rsync_test/Jan_11_2025 it works perfectly, correctly recognizing the link-dest parameter. However, when I try to run the same command

Hi, Well, I need the procedure or how to do a full backup of archives to a directory. Then, do incremental backups in different directories. For example: source-dir to dest-dir a full backup. incremental of sources-dir and differential of backup-dir in `date +%m%h%y` Then, i should have a full backup in the dest-dir and incremental+diferential backup in every $DATE directory. Any ideas? I try

Hi folks, What is the purpose of following statements? [ -d $HOME/emptydir ] || mkdir $HOME/emptydir rsync --delete -a $HOME/emptydir/ $BSERVER::$USER/$BACKUPDIR/ Expecting reply. Baskar

Hello dear list! Just wanted to tell you that there's a simple and somehow smart backup solution using rsync named ccollect [0]. It uses the hardlink feature of rsync to create fullbackups with only minor size differences (it uesd cp -al and pax before). I would be happy for any critic about the software, the documentation the configuration style (cconfig [1]) and the idea itself. Sincerly

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