On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 16:17, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote: > Eric Sisler wrote: > > > If you're planning on making a "snapshot" of live data, rsync is a good way > > to go. > > SNAPSHOTS! That's the word I was looking for...ugh. Thanks! > > > > WARNING! A snapshot and/or periodic "mirror" of live data should > > NOT be used as a substitute for a good backup routine although it sounds > > like you already have a backup strategy in place. > > Yes, stuff's already being dumped to tape every night. It's going back to > recover stuff, that's a pain. I'm trying to simplify my life, specially now that > I'm starting to suffer from RSI. > > > > I used to use rsync to mirror a boot disk to another disk periodically, > > However, does rsync automatically update the backup directory and remove files > that were also deleted in the user's account? Or do I have to first delete > everything, then resync everything (which wouldn't make rsync very fast, now would > it?) >
rsync is incredibly flexible. You can delete removed files or not, follow symlinks or not, check by timestamp or not (will actually compare filechecksums I think). probably other stuff as well. We use it over ssh for secure syncing of directories across multiple machines. BTW it does not have to be on another machine it is just the way we use it. check it out. man rsync Bret -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
