If you really want to have a destination tree that looks like : current -> 2012-07-22 2012-07-22/ 2012-07-21/
with the current symlink pointing to the latest backup, you can manage to do it in two passes : 1. Create an empty directory '2012-07-22/' and the 'current' symlink pointing to it (relative path), and rsync it to the final destination in "replace" mode (ie. update, no deletion) with symlink on (-l). This will replace the existing 'current' symlink in the destination folder. 2. Rsync (-Ha or -Haz) your src folder to 'current/' or to '2012-07-22/' (leave the trailing slash) Greg On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Clint Olsen <[email protected]> wrote: > Ok, that is helpful. As you can guess based on my question, it would be > nice if all the automation can be done on the client side rather than > having some specialized scripting on the receiving side to manage > directories and symlinks etc. > > Thanks, > > -Clint > > > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Greg Deback (rsync) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> 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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