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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, I am learning rsync mechanism. My understanding is that rsync reads a file into multiple chunks and calculates every byte for MD5 and rolling checksum for each chunk.. On the other side of file system, it compares two checksums for each chunk in the same file to decide if two files are equal or not. Is it correct? If it is correct, should I worry the calculation time if I have thousands large

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/

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

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

Hi everyone, This is my first post to the list, although I am a long term user of Asterisk. I have recently found a problem that I just can't seem to solve. I have a client that has an Ubuntu x64 based Asterisk server with and ISDN Dahdi interface and about 25 SIP handsets. Everything was working fine in Asterisk 1.4 and now after migrating the config to Asterisk 1.6.2.5 I have one single

Does anyone have a good distributed backup strategy? I've been revising mine for a year or so now and always realize there's some hole or another in it. I get the feeling to do it exactly the way I want it needs to be complex, but I'm looking for something elegant. My data consists of some of these representative folders: .mozilla Documents Pictures .ssh Music bin And these

Just chiming in slightly off topic. As a first step if you are going to be backing up files to some media with a computer it would be a really good idea to ensure, that the hardware being used is not faulty. I am not saying that your hardware is faulty. However, it would be worth checking this somehow. Check the drive media for bad blocks, check that all the cables are working well. Ensure the

Hi everyone, I have been using rsync for years to perform off-site backups, and have recently come up with a problem that is starting to hurt my head. I am at the point where I am starting to think that there is a method to achieve my desired outcome that I cannot see. First, a bit of history. I usually just set up a script that runs many rsync commands in sequence to perform the desired

Is there a way to know from the rsync logs how long it took to do a backup? The only timing info,. I see is this at the end: sent 3067328 bytes received 7853035429 bytes 1187888.83 bytes/sec total size is 1559866450336 speedup is 198.55 Can I use it to figure out how long the operation took? Does the above mean it took 2.5 secs of send time and 1.8 hours of recieve time so (roughly) the

When trying to sync my TV folder to a mirror drive, episodes with non-ASCII characters in them cannot be processed by rsync. Anything I can do about this? For example, I get this: building file list ... file has vanished: "/Volumes/TV/Raising Hope/Raising Hope - S04E01 - De?\#201ja Vu Man.mkv" This is rsync under OS X: $ rsync --version rsync version 2.6.9 protocol version 29

Hi - is "rsync --version" reporting the wrong version number, or am I to stupid to properly install rsync-3-0-5 on a Mac? Here is what I did: download and extract rsync-3-0-5 (btw: why is there an extra patches folder?) in Terminal I ran: ./configure, make, sudo make install There was no error message, and the old /usr/local/bin/rsync was replaced. When I now issue "rsync

I am involved with the development of lbackup. This message to the rsync mailing list is related to the following thread on the lbackup-disccussion mailing list : http://tinyurl.com/lbackup-discussion-diskfull Essentially, I am curious to if any one using rsync 3.0.7 on Mac OS (10.6) Server has experienced an out of disk space error and not had a message similar to the following reported : >

Hi, I have a bash script for rsync that should tranfer all my filer from one drive to the other. I would like to know how I can make the script sending me an email after the script is run and be able to know if it was a success or not and also if possible to include the log file. This is my script: !/bin/bash rsync -av --delete --log-file=/home/duffed/RSyncLog/$(date

Hi all, I have a strange problem, and I can't seem to solve it. I have set up a Ubuntu 9.10 server with samba+kerberos to be an ADS member server. The PDC was a 2003 SBS server, and all was well. Recently I added a 2008 R2 server standard to the mix, and promoted it as a domain controller. Ever since I did this, the samba server stops working daily. I have updated to 3.4.7 out of the

Hi folks, man page says "By default, rsync will delete any partially transferred file if the transfer is interrupted" I have (reproducible) a partial file left, if I do CTRL-C source-dir: mounted LVM XFS dest-dir: see source-dir Ubuntu 12.04.1 (LTS) kernel 3.2.0-39-generic command: rsync -a

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

Hi Folks I've gone back over the list and the only reference I've found to "Invalid argument (22)" is here: http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2006-May/015478.html That seems a different context of character set mismatches. The common parts to my errors are: rsync: rsync_xal_set: lsetxattr("...","security.selinux") failed: Invalid argument (22) And:

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I think I have narrowed this down even further. I have been working through getting rid of error messages in the logs, and I have updated Samba to 3.4.3. This might have fixed the issue, and I won't know for some time, but I can still see the following error appearing in the logs, which seems to line up with the core issue of machine trust accounts expiring.