I have been reading the rsync documentation and it has left me confused as there is so much of it and so many permutations. I need help to work out the correct 'spell'
I keep my geneweb database on a local headless server and do all my updating of the database on that system. The database lives in /var/lib/geneweb/mybase. There are 9 binary files and several text files which don't change very often. I need to 'copy' those files to my remote geneweb server on a daily basis so the public database is in sync with my local database. I have been doing this by using the built-in geneweb tools for backing-up the data, using scp to copy the back-up file, which is plain text, to the remote server, then doing a restore there to get the latest version, For some reason, which may be down to the fact I am using squeeze on the local server but haven't updated the remote server which is still on lenny, restoring from a backup isn't working (it does work on the local server if I restore to a test database) So I have been re-considering using rsync, I had tried using it some time ago but found that the 'spell' I was using left me with corrupted files at the remote end. My understanding is that rsync doesn't copy complete files but only the differences, so for safety I want to copy any locally updated files as a complete file to the remote server. I do not want to remove any files on the remote server that do not exist locally. (eg there is a file called forum on the remote server which contains messages left by people accessing the Forum facility on the remote database) I need to be able to change the file owner from that of the local user to that of the remote user, keeping permissions the same. I haven't set up the local server so it can do password-less scp to the remote server which incidentally has a non-standard port for scp. So I probably need to transfer files from the local geneweb server to my main system then scp them from that system to the remote server. I did mention the local server is headless and I only access it via scp (or the browser interface to the database) and I don't think it likely I can do rsync through an intermediary system. Apologies for the long post, this problem is something that would be easier to explain face to face rather than via email. One of the things I miss now I can't easily attend BaB meetings is the ability to find an expert to sort things out for me ;-) -- John Lewis using Debian sid -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
