similar to: can't delete older file/directory links on another local partitionafter `snapshot' type backup script

Thanks for looking at this, and developing rsync. Really useful program that I rely on. Bit of a newbie but I couldn't find anything on this in these archives. Hopefully it's a really stupid question! I'm trying to backup using cp -al and then rsync -auR --delete backup idea basically as per http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/#Incremental. I have a separate

Hello. I'm trying to use rsync to keep a backup of a web server (named "www") on a separate machine (named "backup"). "Www" is running Trustix Linux 1.5 (kernel 2-2-20-2tr) with rsync 2.5.4 protocol 26. "Backup" is running OpenBSD 3.0. Rsync is using OpenSSH 3.1p1 as the transport. Files that are deleted from "www" are not deleted from

Hello list, I try to keep a list of directories/files on windows in sync with the ones on a remote machine. Basically syncing works fine, however I am stuck/confused with the various possiblities using include/exclude options. Your help is very much appreciated. Here's the scenario: Local source dir: /cygdrive (seems to be required or else the cygwin-HOME is set) Remote destination dir:

Hi list, I try to keep a local file tree synchronized with the remote one. However, using the --delete option does not work as expected or at least as I whish it would. Here is an example of the local tree I'd like to sync: /dirA/subDirA /subDirB /dirB/subDirC On the remote machine I have: /dirA/subDirA /subDirB /dirB/subDirC /dirC Here is the rsync call I use: Executing rsync

Hi list, I have been reading MAN pages and listarchives, but not found the answer to my question though I am sure it must be possible to acheive my wish. I wish to use rsync to create a backup BUT only keep the files for a limited period of time, EG two weeks. I have not yet been able to figure out how to do this inside rsync (while the backup is being performed) and my understanding of the

A good while ago I asked about difference between --delete-during/delay and --delete-after, when per-directory files are updated (all is perfectly clear for me here), but during the discussion there was a hint made by Wayne, that the outcome can differ in more situations: " It is useful for things such as --delay-updates --delete-delay (to have all updates happen more rapidly at the

Perhaps slightly OT, but I am trying to speed up a backup script which takes an lv snapshot and does this: dd if=lv_snapshot | gzip -c > /destination/lv_file_name.gz Does anyone have an equivalent example using partimage-ng that they would be kind enough to share? - I have been told it would be much faster/more efficient, hence the question. Ten minutes of browsing the partimage-ng docs have

Hi all! Is it possible to lock databases in private dir to make consistent LVM snapshot? I know about tdbbackup, but LVM snapshot is preferred way for me, cause it's already used for MySQL backup. --- Alexey Balekhov

On 09/11/2015 10:18 AM, Jérôme wrote: >> Yep, that about covers it. Note that the --quiesce step in snapshot >> creation requires qemu-guest-agent running in the guest, and that you >> trust interaction with your guest. > > Yes, I think I get this. I don't really figure out what these cases > could be. We're using Debian Jessie and I installed

On 09/11/2015 06:45 AM, Jérôme wrote: > AFAIU, live backups using libvirt may be done thanks to blockcommit as > explained here on the wiki [2]. > > -> Considering our use case, is this the recommended way? Yes, using active block-commit is the ideal way to perform a live backup. > > Assuming yes, here is the plan. > > I wrote a script that does > > #

I'm trying to get a backup system going using rsync --- bit of a newbie. Just wondering if there is a way I can get rsync to recognise that a non-gzipped file in one directory tree is equivalent to the same gzipped file in the (say backup) tree, or vice versa. Could this be done with the include/exclude features? I note that gzip doesn't alter the timestamp on a file when it zips

Hi there: I'm doing a backup of some of my machines via rsync, and I have the next problem: ------------------ [Tue Feb 22 02:51:13 CET 2011] /usr/bin/rsync -az --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh root at server1:/var/spool/exim /data/backups/server1 [Tue Feb 22 02:51:28 CET 2011] /usr/bin/rsync -az --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded

I'm having troubles with getting rsync 2.5.5 (CYGWIN version) to include/exclude files they way I expect it to. I have mulled over the list postings and man pages regarding this and I am either missing something or ... well I don' know. I have a drive with 12 folders in the root however, I only want to rsync 5 of them (the ones marked with an *) and in those 4 I want to exclude certain

Hello, I have 2 servers I'm synchronizing using rsync, I have a situation where I : 1. rsync from rnd-dev2 to rnd-dev1 2. change the rsynched file on rnd-dev1 3. rsync from rnd-dev2 to rnd-dev1 again 4. File gets overridden on rnd-dev1 over though it has newer change time then file on rnd-dev2. here is the bug(?) reproduction: [root@rnd-dev1 test_rsync]# rsync --version rsync version

Hi, I use rsync 3.0.2 for daily incremental backups: rsync -aAzHRxby -f '. -' --numeric-ids --delete-during --delete-excluded \ --suffix='' --backup-dir=$BACKUP_ROOT/$BACKUP_HOST/${TODAY} \ ${DESTINATION}$BACKUP_ROOT/$BACKUP_HOST/current <<< $EXCLUDE_PATTERNS Sometimes I add a new item to $EXCLUDE_PATTERNS but then the excluded files are backed up in

I am using the following command and the excluded directory /usr/share/doc/ still appears with all it's contents in the backup directory when it's contents should be deleted. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong? rsync --delete --delete-excluded -a -R --exclude="/proc/*" --exclude="/dev/*" --exclude="/usr/share/doc/*" --exclude="/backup*"

Hi I have an ocfs2 volume (1.4.1) on lvm2, which is made available on 2 nodes via dual primary drbd that is on it. I wanted to backup my volume, so naturally I made a snapshot of it via the lvm2, and tried to mount it for backing up. However, I got the following error in dmesg : [319981.478168] (23483,0):ocfs2_fill_super:700 ERROR: Unable to create per-mount debugfs root. I then searched

Hi Eric. Thank you so much for your quick and relieving answer. Le 2015-09-11 17:05, Eric Blake a écrit : > Yes, using active block-commit is the ideal way to perform a live backup. Great. > Yep, that about covers it. Note that the --quiesce step in snapshot > creation requires qemu-guest-agent running in the guest, and that you > trust interaction with your guest. Yes, I think

On Wed, 4 May 2016 21:09:44 -0400 Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net> wrote: > That wording from the man page makes almost no sense without the > examples directly after it (and I have read it many times and know > what it is saying). Makes sense to me. The only thing I'd change is to use "in a depth first fasion" instead of "from the top down", "depth

Hi. I'm following here a conversation that was initiated on Kashyap's website [1]. We have a server we use as a host for virtual machines using KVM (virt-manager used for VM creation) and we would like to setup VM backups. Basically, we're thinking of a backup schedule like "keep 7 daily and 4 weekly backups". We'd rather not shutdown the VM every day so live backups