I am trying to create an archive of one of my home directories for items that have changed or been deleted. I am well aware of the --backup option, but it seems not to work across an rsyncd connection
(excuse word wrap from my mailer) but this snippet illustrates the point ARCH=/bak/archive rsync -aHxq --delete --backup --backup-dir=$ARCH/snap/mydocs/ /home/alan/mydocs/ roo::alan/mydocs/ This is run from a cron job (and as root) If I delete files from mydocs on my local machine and run this, I would expect a copy of them to appear on /bak/archive/snap/mydocs on the local machine. I assume it has something to do with the fact that the destination is remote. Is that true? The problem with trying to do this from the other machine is that I would have disk space issues with the ultimate size of my archive. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
