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I'm trying to configure rsync snapshots as described at http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/. I'm essentially using the following commands: mv backup.3 backup.tmp mv backup.2 backup.3 mv backup.1 backup.2 mv backup.0 backup.1 mv backup.tmp backup.0 cp -al backup.1 backup.0 rsync -a --delete source_directory/ backup.0/ I'm trying to backup two directories in a

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

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

Well, I followed this link: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ and implemented it (with a bit of tweaking) on my home network. It is used to make snapshots of two Windows PC's over samba. On one of the machines (and not the other, from what I can tell) it deletes files from the target machine for no good reason (ie. they still exist on the source machine). Then, if I run

Having snapshot technology is great. Who else supports it? Thanks. Scott

Can anyone tell me that how can i take incremental backup through rsync. I will be grateful to you . -- Regards Piyush Joshi 9415414376 -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed

Hello, I am trying to rsync folders/files hosted on a Windows machine to a Linux machine. Many of the directory names have spaces in them. How can I list them in a file so that the --include-from option use them correctly? Thanks! Charles -- Charles-E. Nadeau Ph.D http://radio.weblogs.com/0111823/

We have about 5 servers spread out throughout the country: 2 Centos 4.4, 1 Red Hat and 2 windows machines- looking for some good ideas for a back-up solution. Our servers hold a lot of data, but only a small portion of it is crucial on any given day. That crucial portion is always changing (for example, this week the crucial files all relate to November- current and previous projects, and the next

Hello All, I have been using rsync to backup several filesystems by using Mike Rubel's hard link method (http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/). The problem is, I am backing up a lot of ASCII .log, csv, and .txt files. These files are large and can range anywhere from 1GB to 30GB. I was wondering if on the target side (the backup side), if I can use some sort of compression. I

From: http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2002-December/009101.html >Well, I followed this link: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ > >and implemented it (with a bit of tweaking) on my home network. It is >used to make snapshots of two Windows PC's over samba. On one of the >machines (and not the other, from what I can tell) it deletes files from >the

Hello, I suspect a minor bug in the file rsync-2.5.4/backup.c line 206. To identify too-long pathnames, it makes the following test: if (strlen(backup_dir) + strlen(fname) > (MAXPATHLEN - 1)) I think that the constant subtracted off should be 2, to account both for the forward-slash and for the trailing zero in the following snprintf statement, line 211: snprintf(keep_name, sizeof

Hi, I dont run rsync cron jobs to maintain big archives, I use the system to keep my work and home computer sync-ed. I would like a '-i, --interactive' option to use with --delete, so I can decide wich deletes to up date and which were potential mistakes. For example, my regular backup of my work files (at work) was needed as we lost some data - However this backup didn't delete

I didn't see this in the wishlist, but using rsync for backups as I'm starting to do now, there's a feature that would be really cool. I don't see it in the man page or in any of the docs online. Basically, I'd like to see an option to modify --delete that deletes only destination files that have been missing for over Y days. For backups, this provides a time window on

Hello, I have got three folders: - /home/backup/2008-10-20 - place for differential backup - /mnt/for_backup - folder with files for backup - /home/backup/2008-10-01 - place where the last full backup is My question: is below command prepared correctly to make differential backup? rsync -avPbn --backup-dir=/home/backup/2008-10-20/ --exclude "System Volume Information" --exclude

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4977 Summary: rsync: failed to set times on Product: rsync Version: 2.6.9 Platform: x86 URL: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: core AssignedTo:

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I would like to get some opinions on a backup method using rsync. I already have a script written to mirror the data over to a backup script from a cron that is run every night. I've also been tempted to use the "--delete" option to keep everything up to date on the backup server. However, this is probably a bad idea in the event my data is deleted from the "/home"

I'm really confused with all the examples out there and all different types of incremental backups. I tried several scripts but cannot reduce the size of my backup folders. What I want is to backup my documents to my external drive every month and save as much disk space as possible. Lets say I have 3 backup directories in the external drive, backup03.10, backup04.10 and backup05.10. I want

We switched our mail server over from mbox to maildir a few months ago and couldn't be happier - the performance under normal load is incredible. However we now have a problem with backup.. Typically we would run tar on the mail server, sending its output to another server via ssh.. Like this: tar cfp - /home | gzip | ssh other.server (cd /backups && tar xfp -).. I have tried

Hello fellas, Firstly, I would like to apologize for the post being long, but I would appreciate if someone with a good knowledge of the subject gave his opinion. I am working on a backup solution for a series of old and very specialized host computers in aviation industry. I need to do monthly backups of one or two logical volumes (non-OS) on each of the computers and keep the last 12 monthly