similar to: Mailboxes are in Maildir format. Any good backup tips? Had success with version control?

>From what I understand, the incremental rsync algorithm saves on network bandwidth, but does rsync then just merge that delta data to end up with the new version and full sized file on the destination filesystem? I have these Microsoft Entourage databases files that modified often and can be a few gigs in size... I want to back them up with rsync, but if the whole file is backed-up each

I'm trying to use the rsync algorithm for incremental backups. After a quick look at rsync I saw the batch mode operations, and I thought that maybe I can modify them for incremental backups. What is needed is to add an option to save the checksums of all the files of the level 0 backup and a second option to use the level n checksum to calculate the delta batch files for the level n+1

Hi All, I am posting this querry second time. What i need is-- {Is there any command by which I can get only the updation of file ie only the incremental?. Suppose I have a text file say ss.txt of 3KB in size and I have taken the backup of this file. Now I am making the changes in to this file(ss.txt) by adding 1KB of data. Now I want this 1KB data (in to a new file) when I take the

What I want to do is use rsync to back up a folder to an external drive. I would like to keep 30 days worth. For example: I have backups of June 1 - June 30. Once July 1 comes along, I want to keep June 2 - July 1 and delete June 1, and so forth. Any ideas how I can accomplish this? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Rysnc-Schedule-tf4104577.html#a11672997 Sent from the

Hi! DomUs can be backed up just fine, and there''s no problem to restore files as long as the DomU boots. Now I wonder how to recover hard (desaster recovery)... Backing up the disk images or partitions (from Dom0) seems to be not an option, because there are changes to them all the time, so incremental backups would always save them, and all saves would be inconsistent. Now the idea

Hi all. (I am sending this querry here because it is somehow relating to rsync. If i am wrong please pardon me.) I am doing following on these windowsXP and Vista. I am trying to get only incremental backup using "rdiff-backup" (that also uses rsync). I have installed gcc compiler and by following the steps given in http://katastrophos.net/andre/blog/2005/11/02/rdiff-backup-on-windows/

Hi, i am new to rsync and i want to use rsync to emulate rdiff behaviour (because i can't install rdiff on the system). What i would like rsync to do is to generate a diff file (like with rsync --write-batch) but WITHOUT changing the destination file. This would allow me to store daily differential updates on the target (i think hardlinking would not help me much as the file is changing every

Hi There, I've been toying around with the code of rsync on and off for a while, and I had a thought that I would like some comments on. Its to do with very large files and disk space. One of the common uses of rsync is to use it as a backup program. A client connects to the rsync server, and sends over any changed files. If the client has very large files that have changed marginally,

Hi All, I am not so expert on rsync. I am using windows XP and Vista. I am able to take the backup using rsync.(It does not give the incremental) I need to take incremental also. After some googling (referring the link- http://www.jeffawaddell.com/2008_04_01_archive.html) I found that rsync + ZFS snapshot does the same job. It use rsync to make delta backups to the file server, and automatic ZFS

So I thought I'd get a head start for next week - I have a low-power Linux box that has a few samba shares mounted, and limited hard disk space. This box is connected to a tape library via SCSI card. I want to find the best way to create a full, then incremental backup of the samba mounts, directly to tape. Some of the samba mounts are appliances that cannot run any special

Im brand new to rsync and i been doing alot of reading about it and it looks like the tool I have long been wanting. Bascially i got 1 server, 2 hard drives. partions are / /boot /home /usr /var /backup (2nd drive) Bascially what i am looking at doing is mirroring the first drive to the 2nd drive, and once that intial one is moved over, have a cron run nightly (or when specified) that will

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4793 Summary: link-dest hardlink does not always work well with -o -g -p Product: rsync Version: 2.6.9 Platform: PPC OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P3 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned@samba.org

our daily backup is done using the rdiff-backup tool, which in turn utilizes rsync/librsync to do the actual mirroring work. a few days ago we did a refactoring and renamed a bunch of directories. for backward compatibility we maintain the old names by symlinking it to the new names. so, for example, oldname1/ now becomes newname1/, and oldname1 is now a symlink to newname1/. we found that

Hi, I've been using the Dovecot EE packages for Ubuntu for some time now and just recently started getting 404 errors. Have those packages been discontinued or is this just a temporary issue? Thanks.

I''ve been testing Xen for a few weeks now and am just about to put it into production use. (I wrote some scripts to create Debian images easily; the tools are included in Debian Sid as "xen-tools".) The only thing troubling me at the moment is backing up the virtual instances. I''m looking to run about four virtual systems upon a host. If the physical host

Hi All.. Am working on continous backup of mailboxes using rsync(for e.g by running rsync every 2 min) Things gets more complicated when users create Subfolders in INBOX , SENT , etc.. If anyone among you did that plz guide & advise. Thanks CoolAtt _________________________________________________________________ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free.

Hello, I want mount directory of one server to another over internet. I was looking to NFS4, but there are no security mechanisms. I need encrypted connection using private key (something like SFTP). Or - if there is in CentOS repo (or EPEL) package, that can mount directory over internet using private key and make differential backup (like rdiff-backup). Thank you very much for links or other

On 24 Apr 2002, "Shirish H. Phatak" <shirish@tacitnetworks.com> wrote: > Since there appears to be a dedicated group of users and lots of > activity, maybe we can convince Martin to roll in these patches and make > a new release? I have been really lax in supporting librsync for the last few months, because of a new job and taking over maintenance of rsync

On May 7, 2015 6:05 AM, "Jussi Hirvi" <greenspot at greenspot.fi> wrote: > > I wonder why nobody has yet mentioned rdiff-backup. It combines browsable directories with multiple versions - the version data is stored in a separate rdiff-backup-data subdirectory (one per backup task). > > One downside is that rdiff-backup causes a lot of network traffic. For that reason I

hello, I'm new to this list. here is my question: I would like to synchronize two computers (say the home one and the job one) using zip drives or similar (cdroms, etc), since modem lines are quite slow and expensive (in Italy). I though I could produce the "signature" of files on home computer, store it on a zip, go to job, run rsync to copy the missing or altered files on