On 06/29/2010 06:58 PM, Nathan W wrote: > posting this here in the hope someone may catch something i'm missing. > > i'm trying to teach myself rsync, as the other backup solutions i'd been > using don't do diff's, and thus take too long to backup. i've come up w/ > a functional backup to backup from my laptop to our home network server, > but it's goofing when i add it as a cronjob... > > here's the rsync: > > ~$ rsync > -avz --delete -e "ssh -p 2456" /home/nathan/ --exclude 'Music' > nat...@home-net:/media/disk/backups/nathan/ > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > woo, there is always a way. in this case i was able to use rsync's --exclude-from option, and just write the list of excluded files/folders in a file, and no need to mess w/ where things go wrong mixing rsync and cron. thanks for the help folks.
cheers, nathan _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
