similar to: rsync script from homepage: trouble

Hello, I am using rsync v2.5.6 to backup our entire server filesystem over the network to a central backup server. I have copied the example script from the rsync website (http://rsync.samba.org/examples.html) to create incremental backups, the --backup-dir seems to have a strange side-effect. Everything goes well, but on the server side where the backup is stored I can't seem to break out

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

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

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,

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

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

I'm relatively new to Samba so please excuse any inconsistencies with my terminology. I'm running Samba 2.0.6 on Solaris 2.6 and having problems creating the Samba server machine account on an NT PDC. I already have an NT based domain 'PCDEV' which consists of a number of NT 4.0 workstations as well as a PDC ('AULE') and BDC running NT 4.0 Server with sp5 (??). My NT

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 >

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

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

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5440 Summary: 'relative' test fails on SunOs 5.8 Product: rsync Version: 3.0.2 Platform: Sparc OS/Version: SunOS Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned@samba.org ReportedBy: brianegge@yahoo.com

hi i try to backup some dir of my hd i had an old script... but i lost it... i tried to create a new one, without success include.txt + .kde/ + .kde/share/ + .kde/share/apps/ + .kde/share/apps/kmail/*** + .kde/share/apps/kwallet/*** - .** exclude.txt rpm/ mp3/ Download/ .* my backup script: #!/bin/sh # directory to backup BDIR=/home/$USER #destination DEST=/dev/sr0 # excludes file

Hi All, I have been using rsync to backup to a central server with a 7 day incremental script on 2 Redhat boxen. #!/bin/sh PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin DAY=`date +%A` export PATH DAY [ -d /root/emptydir ] || mkdir /root/emptydir rsync --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh --delete -a /root/emptydir/ CENTRAL_SERVER_IP:/backup2/BACKED_UP_SERVER_FQDN/$DAY rmdir /root/emptydir rsync --delete

Hi, I tried to build rsync-3.0.0pre4 on a list of different plattforms and got some problems with build or test suite. first, the good news: the build and tests worked fine on these plattforms Solaris 5.5.1, 5.6 and 5.8 (sparc) and 5.10 (x86 and sparc) SUSE Linux 9.0 (amd64), 10.1 (amd6) SLES10 (32 and 64 bit) RedHat 7.1 and 9.0 (32 bit) RedHat EL3 (ia64) problems

Hello, I'm trying to determine if rsync is a sure method of backing up servers (Linux and Windows) whose files are constantly being accesed and are not able to be stoped they're services for backing up purposes... I would use it over ssh for making incremental backups... in my tests seem to always have worked backing up from a debian server to the copy server that runs debian too...