Rsync --update copy one file multiples times

2012-11-21 Thread kamleshverma
Hi All, My using rsync command to backup my mail server mailbox to backup server. I am using following command for backup. rsync -avzu -e ssh root@192.168.1.12:/mail_home /mail_backup I configured daily cron for this command in backup server. In mail server /mail_home folder having all

Re: Rsync --update copy one file multiples times

2012-11-21 Thread Francis . Montagnac
Hi. On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 11:41:48 +0100 kamleshverma wrote: In mail server /mail_home folder having all user's mailbox and size of mail_home is 345 GB and in backup server I have assign 450 GB for mail_backup drive. That lets 105 GB of free space for the temporary copy done by default

Re: Rsync --update copy one file multiples times

2012-11-21 Thread kamleshverma
Hi Francis, Thanks for reply.. Yes, Drive showing full. actually I created LVM for backup.. Please find below output of df -h which I run on backup server. [root@backup ~]# df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5 49G 2.8G 43G 7% / tmpfs

Re: Rsync --update copy one file multiples times

2012-11-21 Thread Francis . Montagnac
On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:32:17 +0100 kamleshverma wrote: Yes, Drive showing full. actually I created LVM for backup.. I don't know LVM well, but if you use it to keep snapshots of your volume that explain your problem. At worsed, ie: if every files have changed between two runs, you will need

RE: Rsync --update copy one file multiples times

2012-11-21 Thread Voelker, Bernhard
Francis wrote (Wednesday, November 21, 2012 3:59 PM): On Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:32:17 +0100 kamleshverma wrote: Yes, Drive showing full. actually I created LVM for backup.. I suggest again to use the --inplace option of rsync. Additionally, if there have been some file deleted, then rsync -avxu