Hi, As for the destination directory and the backup directory (--backup-dir), rsync will create the missing subdirectory (one level below the existing dir only), so yes for /<somedir-exists>/<newdir-with-date>, no for /<somedir-exists>/<newdir-with-year>/<newdir-with-month> on january 1st... But if you want this dir to be a symlink, you can't.
Greg On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 7:16 PM, Clint Olsen <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been very interested in these discussions and uses of rsync as a > "clone" of Time Machine. A couple of things have been keeping me from a > fully automated solution. I'd like to eliminate the need for Samba/NFS > mounts of any kind, because they have proven to be unreliable for me and > under some operating environments (Cygwin) it breaks --link-dest. In most > of the articles I've read, a target "date" directory is created with some > sort of "latest" symlink for the --link-dest parameter. I can accomplish > those tasks via remote ssh commands, but I was hoping there was a better > way. For example, is there any circumstance where you can coax rsync into > creating a target directory that's not there already? > > % rsync <source> user@nas::module/<somedir-exists>/<newdir-with-date> > > So, newdir-with-date doesn't exist (yet). I would like to have rsync > create it for me. Is that even possible? > > Thanks, > > -Clint > > -- > Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. > To unsubscribe or change options: > https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync > Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html >
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