Rsync creates empty directories with backup-dir option

2015-07-15 Thread Pierre Willaime
://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/150378/rsync-3-1-0-is-creating-empty-backup-directories [2] http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/186798/rsync-backup-dir-creates-empty-folders-in-backup-dir [3] http://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=rsync%40lists.samba.orgq=backup+create+empty+foldersa=1

Re: Rsync 2.5.7 --delete and --backup behavoir

2006-12-09 Thread Matt McCutchen
On 12/7/06, Grok Mogger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to include deleted empty folders in the backup? No, rsync does not support backing up folders. Do you need to back up the attributes of the deleted folders? If not, you could just write a script to create backup folders

Question about include/exclude rules

2005-06-28 Thread l . corbo
Hi all, I'm trying to made a filtered backup of a windows PC. My target is to create a recursive backup of only files reported in the include/exclude files (i.e. only *.txt). the rules (reported below) work well, but also create an empty folders structure that I don'want. Rsync works fine for me

DO NOT REPLY [Bug 4621] -p option to simulate mkdir -p for rsync

2008-07-12 Thread samba-bugs
limits its folder creation to only one directory, instead of allowing it to create a tree of directories. It would be exceptionally useful if rsync would supply the -p option to the mkdir command so it will create a new tree of folders and use that as the backup destination. Currently, I have to work

Re: Delete remote folder

2016-06-03 Thread Fabian Cenedese
fortunately at least one place has to be local, doing a >remote-remote is not possible. So far I haven't found a solution to this problem. I've now seen this release note for the last version 3.1.2: - Don't create an empty backup dir for a transferred file that doesn't exist yet. I'm wond

Delete remote folder

2016-06-02 Thread Fabian Cenedese
Hi I'm trying to build a backup system based on rsync. It should work with different destinations (local, share, remote etc) that's why I'm looking for ways how every operation can be controlled from the client side. I want to create full backups and incremental backups. For the incremental

Re: Delete remote folder

2016-06-02 Thread Hans-Christian Jehg
chine.html HC On 02-06-2016 10:27, Fabian Cenedese wrote: Hi I'm trying to build a backup system based on rsync. It should work with different destinations (local, share, remote etc) that's why I'm looking for ways how every operation can be controlled from the client side. I want to create fu

Re: I don't get --link-dest, at all

2009-08-11 Thread Mac User FR
I think your problem is with reading the correct size of folders as there have hard links. To do this with du command, try: du -sh /home/backup/* As far as I know, du command will only report the real disk size if the 2 hard links are in the du scoop. Otherwise, running 2 times du on the 2