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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

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

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 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

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

Hello, I'm experiencing very slow read/write performance, about 20 MB/s, on Samba share when I configure the "server signing" option as "mandatory". Once I set "server signing" to "default", the read/write performance returns to average speed about 800 MB/s. I am using Samba 4.9.4 on server with Intel Xeon CPU E5-2690 0 @ 2.90GHz (32 threads) and 10 Gbit

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

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 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

With rsync 3.1.1 (on debian), using the "backup-dir" option creates a tree of empty folders inside the backup repository. This doesn't affect the transfer (all files and folder are copied anyway). Example: ---- rsync -rtvhPx --delete --stats --exclude-from=/home/pierre/scripts/ExclusionRSync --backup --backup-dir=/media/pierre/g2/sauvegardes/fichiers_supprimes_pierre

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,

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

I am a developer on the LBackup project. An LBackup user recently posted a question to the mailing list asking about the following error. > "rsync: unpack_smb_acl: sys_acl_get_info(): Unknown error: 0 (0)" Link to thread : <http://www.mail-archive.com/lbackup-discussion at lists.connect.homeunix.com/msg00040.html> My understanding of this error is that when copying files via

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 have problem with Samba 4.4.3. I'd like to use SMB 3.02 file shares as shared storage for Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 R2. I am able to create Virtual Machine on Samba share using guest access, but when I try to start VM I'm getting the following error: "An error occurred while attempting to start the selected virtual machine(s). 'New Virtual Machine' could not

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

On Fri, 5 Aug 2016 08:38:09 +0200 Adam Błaszczykowski <adam.blaszczykowski at gmail.com> wrote: > ok sorry for that, now should be ok :-D > > *smb.conf:* > [global] > workgroup = RES > netbios name = dsshp2 > vfs objects = acl_xattr shadow_copy2 fileid > fileid:mapping = fsid > encrypt passwords = yes > domain logons = no > log

Hey all, I'm writing a tool: http://www.subspacefield.org/security/hdb/ It is very similar in some ways to rsync, except it's meant for backing up locally to removable HDDs, and it keeps metadata around when the HDD is removed. I figured I'd ping people here to see if they are interested in participating in the brainstorming sessions. I figure you know a lot more than me about this

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

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