similar to: rsync incremental backup problem with --backup-dir switch

Hello, I'm new to this and am trying to modify the "backup to a central backup server with 7 day incremental" script from http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/examples.html to suit my situation. I have ended up with the script attached below and when running it from command line I get these errors: rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(726) and a plethora of this >

I am using the 'backup to a central backup server with 7 day incremental' example to archive three separate computers to identically configured (apart from name) shares on a Western Digital 'MyBookLive' NAS which has rsync enabled. The backup from two Raspberry Pi Computers operates without a problem but the backup from a Fedora 32 computer fails with an 'unknown module

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 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

Dear Manoj, Have found out the mistake in my script. One must create directory if he/she wants to move old files to backup directory. In my script I was not creating any new backup-dir(datewise), therefore despite of have -b --backup-dir flags it was not working. This means rsync can only create automatically new direcotry for destination but not backup-dir !!!! Am I correct? Bipin ---

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

Need to understand exactly what the "--delete" flag does when rsync runs. Here is my understanding... If a file is created on the source machine on monday, then rsync'd to the rsync server on monday night, then deleted on the source machine tuesday, then it will be deleted from the rsync server on tuesday night when the cron job runs again. But, would rsync under any circumstances,

Hi, I would like to compare a backup dir with a directory list in --compare-dest= but I don't know how to specify this list. If a have only one dir it's ok, but if I have 2 or more dir I have an error ? Here is my script: #!/bin/bash SSH_USER= SSH_HOST= TOBCK=/ EXCLUDES=/root/bckscript/ns200176/excludes LOG=/root/bckscript/ns200176/rsync_$(date +'%Y-%m-%d_%H.%M.S').log

hi my script to backup my home folder BDIR=/home/$USER EXCLUDE=exclude.txt OPTS="-a -r -v -p -t --del --exclude-from=$EXCLUDE --progress" BACKUPDIR=/media/dvdrecorder rsync $OPTS $BDIR $BACKUPDIR my exclude file + .kde/ + .kde/share/ + .kde/share/apps/ + .kde/share/apps/kmail/*** + .kde/share/apps/kwallet/*** + .kde/share/apps/konqueror/*** + .kde/share/apps/kabc/*** - .** when i

hi i try to include and exclude file when i do a rsync #!/bin/sh # directory to backup BDIR=/home/collinm/test/home # includes file - this contains a wildcard pattern per line of files to exclude INCLUDE=include.txt # excludes file - this contains a wildcard pattern per line of files to exclude EXCLUDE=exclude.txt OPTS="-a -r -v -p -t --delete-before --exclude-from=$EXCLUDE

> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Frederic BOHE <fbohe-guest at alioth.debian.org> > To: nut-commits at lists.alioth.debian.org > Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:57:09 +0000 > Subject: svn commit r2940 - in > branches/windows_port/scripts/Windows/Installer: . ImageFiles > ImageFiles/Binary ImageFiles/Others ImageFiles/emptyDir >

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

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Since snapshot rsync-HEAD-20090220-0710GMT.tar.gz make check is successful but sudo make check fails ------------------------------------------------------------ ----- overall results: 29 passed 3 failed 6 skipped ------------------------------------------------------------ failed FAIL batch-mode FAIL chmod-option FAIL daemon-gzip-upload

There are a couple of niggles with the sandboxing of the unprivileged child in the privsep code: the empty directory causes namespace pollution, and it requires care to ensure that it is set up properly and remains set up properly. The patch below (against the portable OpenSSH, although the patch against the OpenBSD version is very similar) replaces the fixed empty directory with one that is

It didn't help :( When I did ping to 192.168.1.1 from client machine I got the following in syslog: May 8 08:55:54 ns tinc.vpn_net[726]: Sending packet of 100 bytes to US_VPN (x.x.x.x - inetIP) May 8 08:55:55 ns tinc.vpn_net[726]: Incoming data socket error: Connection refused tcpdump -i tap0 gives this: 08:49:13.919331 ns.iris.bg > 192.168.1.1: icmp: echo request 08:49:14.919323

Hi there, I set up my company's back up server using rsync. And I've got a strange problem. I searched in the archives of this list, but none of them seems not giving me an idea to solve the problem. If anyone can help, it would be grateful. I'm using cron by a user (non wheel/admin) to rsync everyday during the night. The cron is set in the server to transfer the backing-up

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Obviously you can ssh an rm -rf. Alternatively, if you are in a restricted environment where you are only allowed to use rsync you can rsync --delete an empty directory to it. On 02/03/2016 08:33 PM, jupiter wrote: > Hi, > > I am runing rsync --backup --backup-dir=$BACKUPDIR where the > BACKUPDIR=$(date +%d) to recycle the $BACKUPDIR

Hi, I am runing rsync --backup --backup-dir=$BACKUPDIR where the BACKUPDIR=$(date +%d) to recycle the $BACKUPDIR in a month. But rsync does not clean the $BACKUPDIR before writing to it in cycling. I guess you have to clean it manually before the rsync can write to it. As my $BACKUPDIR is in remote machine, do you have to run ssh to delete it first before calling rsync in a script? Or if there

Hi Kevin, Thank you very much for the response. Actually, I don't think I need to clean the backup dir defined in --backup-dir=<backup dir>, when the contents has already been deleted in the destination (no exist), it will delete from the backup dir as well in next cycle, correct? Regards, - j On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:39 PM, Kevin Korb <kmk at sanitarium.net> wrote: >