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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 all, I have the following situation: Backup /mysource to /backupdir, /backupdir/full ---------an old full backup /backupdir/back2 -------previous increment backup(based on the full backup mentioned above) /backupdir/back1 ------most recent increment backup (based on the two backups mentioned above) How can I merge the two increment backups into one directory,say

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: >

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 >

Hello, In a small environment I have to backup two servers, an Ubuntu 9.10 and a Windows Server 2008 machine. My Backuphost is a Ubuntu 9.10 machine as well. I installed rsync on both Ubuntu hosts from repository (3.0.6) and cwrsync from http://www.itefix.no/i2/node/10650 (3.0.7). Then I wrote some Bash-Scripts which executes rsync every week like that: BACKUPDIR=/var/backup rsync -v -a

I'm trying to mount a samba share located on one Linux server to another samba server for backup purposes. The problem im running into is that i get an error stating: couldn't find service <share I am specifying> Here is what im attempting: One server #1 sambaserver, Where I want the share to be mounted for backup purposes smbmount //valhalla/backupdir /backuparea/valhalla If

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

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

Is there any way to have rsync compare against a file with a *different* name? What I'd like to do is compare a vm - whatsit.img against a backup - whatsit.current, that's a symlink to whatsit.timestamp, and if different, *then* make the copy (which my script will then move to whatsit.newtimestamp, and change the symlink to point to the new one, then remove the old (or maybe save an older

Hi there, I am running rsync-3.0.6-12.el6.x86_64 on a centos 6.6 box. Am trying to get files from a remote server (centos 6.5) to my local machine. It appears to connect fine, but does not transfer any file. this is what I am seeing [youcantoo at testbox home]# rsync -avvvzh -P --stats --delete servername::backupdir/ /home/findmoore opening tcp connection to servername port 873 sending daemon

Hi all, I am very new to the rsync world (as well as the linux world) and have some really basic doubts. Please bear with me. I installed RH 9 on two systems in the same network and Rsync 2.5.5 was automatically installed with it. When I executed the command “rsync –avz test.txt /backupdir/ ”, it backed up the file test.txt into backupdir/test.txt. But when I tried the command “rsync

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

This may not be an rsync-specific question, but it is certainly stopping me from moving forward with rsync and I am sure it has a simple solution. I have written a simple shell script to rsync disks attached to a Mac OS X Server 10.4.11 Xserve box at our offices to a similar Mac OS X Server 10.4.11 setup at our colocation facility. The script runs rsync 3.0.3 on the machine at the colocation

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 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

----- Forwarded message from Paulo da Silva <psdasilva@esoterica.pt> ----- From: Paulo da Silva <psdasilva@esoterica.pt> Subject: rsync: Request for a feature Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 17:09:11 +0100 To: mbp@samba.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040317 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=3.2 tests=BAYES_10 autolearn=ham version=2.63 Hi. 1st.

I had originally written about this problem last month (http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/samba/2002-November/085418.html) Since then, our company has added another Windows Fileserver which I'm trying to back up, and they are both having the problem. Because it happens on both servers, this leads me to believe it really is a problem with my Samba server. I've upgraded to 2.2.7a, as the

Bugs item #20455, was opened at 2008-05-30 16:54 You can respond by visiting: http://rubyforge.org/tracker/?func=detail&atid=411&aid=20455&group_id=85 Category: None Group: Code Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 3 Submitted By: Nobody (None) Assigned to: Nobody (None) Summary: win32-open3: crashes after 170 popen3 operations Initial Comment: OS: XP w/SP2 C:\Documents and

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

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