similar to: Thorough distributed backup/sync strategy

Subject should be enough: are hardlinks supported when rsyncing over ssh? I know that I cannot do anything with hardlinks if I'm using SSHFS over FUSE, I was wondering if rsync is plagued by the same problem. Matt

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

Hi All, I am presently doing a small POC with rsync for incremental backup and restore starategies. I have come up with certain question down the line, can anyone help me with the explanation. Used the config and ideas from: http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ The commands executed on two machines in sequence Machine 1: root at Andruil:~# vim testfile root at Andruil:~# ls

I'm using rsync to do an incremental backup of my desktop here, to a remote server as follows: #/usr/bin/bash old=$(date -d 'now - 1 week' +%Y-%m-%d) new=$(date +%Y-%m-%d) rsync -avP --delete --link-dest=../$dir /home/bakers bakers at perturb.org:/home/bakers/backup/$new/ This is actually working GREAT! The only problem is that sometimes the cronjob won't complete (internet is

Hi, Presently I have the latest full backup in a 'current' directory and 30 day incrementals in 'YYYY-MM-DD' format directories. Without changing that directory structure I'd like the 'YYYY-DD-MM' directories to contain the full system hardlinked (when applicable) to 'current'. What rsync command-line options could provide me with this? Thanks,

Am 19.06.2016 um 19:27 schrieb Simon Hobson: > Dennis Steinkamp <dennis at lightandshadow.tv> wrote: > >> i tried to create a simple rsync script that should create daily backups from a ZFS storage and put them into a timestamp folder. >> After creating the initial full backup, the following backups should only contain "new data" and the rest will be referenced

Hello, I would like to specify ports on both hosts to copy files between two remote computeres. Is there any way to do this with scp? The -P flag seems to apply to the port on the second host only. Regards, Miguel

Greetings All, I've been thinking about the current behavior of the --link-dest=DIR option. In the absence of --delete, ALL members of DIR should be linked to the destination (aside from those that are changed). If not, there should at least be a --no-link-dest-delete option. (This latter option might be better to avoid disrupting the behavior of current rsync commands) My rational: This

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

How do you handle snapshotting? or do you leave that to the block/fs virtualization layer? /kc On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 01:35:27PM +1200, Henri Shustak said: >> Our backup procudures have provision for looking back at previous directories, but there is not much to be gained with recycled directories. Without recycling, and after a failure, the latest available backup may not have much

rsync -Ha --link-dest=/media/4tb/bak/panic-2012-01-01 /media/2tb/bak/panic-2012-02-01 /media/4tb/bak/ root at dancer:/media/4tb/bak# ls -l panic*/home/darxus/0000_latest.jpg -rw------- 15 darxus darxus 100772 1999-09-14 21:19 panic-2011-12-20/home/darxus/0000_latest.jpg -rw------- 15 darxus darxus 100772 1999-09-14 21:19 panic-2012-01-01/home/darxus/0000_latest.jpg -rw------- 1 darxus darxus

is there anything special to do this from the daemon server. I've setup the /etc/rsyncd.conf with some filesystems and I would rather originate (control) my rsyncs from this server and not from the hosts that have the data I want. ie. I want to pull not push. for instance my rsyncd.conf [www] comment = www path = /snaps/www numeric ids = true log file = /snaps/rsync/logs/www.log pid file

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

Hi, I think about buying a NAS-server from Sun. To backup this server I want to use our central to-tape backup. For whatever reason ppl are asking me to make one compressed copy to disk and only backup this copy. So to reduce load I'd like to have a script that: identifies changed files only (using md5?) copies them and compresses them storeBackup.pl does something similar, but keeps

rsync folks, Henri Shustak <henri.shustak at gmail.com> wrote: > LBackup always starts a new backup snapshot with an empty directory. I > have been looking at extending --link-dest options to scan beyond just > the previous successful backup to (failed backups / older backups). > However, there are all kinds of edge cases which are worth considering > with such a changes. At

Feature request: allow --link-dest dir to be linked to even if file exists in target. This statement from the man page is adhered to too strongly IMHO: "This option works best when copying into an empty destination hierarchy, as rsync treats existing files as definitive (so it never looks in the link-dest dirs when a destination file already exists)". I was suprised by this behaviour

Hello, We have strange issue with rsync and backup-dir option. In case of having empty directories and deleting them, those directories are not backed up in backup-dir directory. Directories are backed up only if contains files. Scenario: # mkdir -p source/b # rsync -a --backup --backup-dir=../backup source/ destination/ # rm -rf source/b # rsync -a --backup --backup-dir=../backup source/

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 .. Am using rsync to mirror all mailboxes to a backup server. I have configured rsync to run every 1 min. we have around 50 mailboxws for now. Plz advise if ok to run rsync every 1 min. Thanks CoolAtt _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969 -------------- next

The current man text for rsync is rather sparse in what it tells you about backup-dir This is from my debian installation - which appears to have come from the source here --backup-dir=DIR In combination with the --backup option, this tells rsync to store all backups in the specified directory on the receiving side. This can be used for incremental backups. You can addi? tionally specify a